Last Vanities: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213745)

"Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author, the rest of one's life," said Joseph Brodsky of Fleur Jaeggy's novel, Sweet Days of Displine. Now Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the Fﾜhn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.

Author: Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks
ISBN-10: 0811213749
ISBN-13: 9780811213745
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1998
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.27w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/07/1998 pg. 22