I Am the Brother of XX (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811225984)

Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline, her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here, in her newest collection, I Am the Brother of XX, she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal, who can say how she gets away with it, but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino, Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools, they somehow steal your heart. And they don't rest at that, but endlessly disturb your mind.

Author: Fleur Jaeggy
ISBN-10: 0811225984
ISBN-13: 9780811225984
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2017
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/20/2017
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2017