Sweet Days of Discipline Jaeggy Fleur
Sweet Days of Discipline Jaeggy Fleur A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder…
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Sweet Days of Discipline Jaeggy Fleur
A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem," TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Frderique, the apparently perfect new girl.