I Am the Brother of XX

Fleur Jaeggy (New Directions), Gini Alhadeff

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New Directions Publishing Corporation
25 July 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation

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.

By: Fleur Jaeggy (New Directions)
Translated by: Gini Alhadeff
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 107g
ISBN: 9780811225984
ISBN 10: 0811225984
Publication Date: 25 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

The London Times Literary Supplement named Fleur Jaeggy's S.S. Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year; and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta as well as the Premio Speciale Rapallo. The author of The Sun at Midday and Diary of a Djinn, Gini Alhadeff translated to great acclaim Patrizia Cavalli's My Poems Won't Change the World.

Reviews for I Am the Brother of XX

"""Startling and original-so disturbing and so haunting."" -- Cathleen Schine - The New York Review of Books ""This book is twisted and hypnotizing and, somehow, downright lovely. Reading it is not unlike diving naked and headlong into a bramble of black rosebushes, so intrigued you are by their beauty: it's a swift, prickly undertaking, and you emerge the other end bloodied all over."" -- Daniel Johnson - the Paris Review ""A wonderful, brilliant, savage writer."" -- Susan Sontag ""Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness-extraordinary."" -- Joseph Brodsky ""Nothing rivals its intensity."" -- The Los Angeles Review of Books ""How a novel could be so chilly and so passionate at the same time is a puzzle, but that icy-hot quality is only one of the distinctions of Sweet Days of Discipline."" -- April Bernard - Newsday"