Sweet days of discipline Fleur Jaeggy, Tim Parks,
Publisher: New York : New Directions Pub. Corp., 1993.
ISBN: 0811212351
DDC: 853.914
LCC: PQ4870
Edition: (acid-free paper) :$9.95 ($12.99 Can.)
Summary:
"Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel
begins simply and innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in
a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing truly simple or
innocent here. With the off-handed knowingness of a remorseless young
Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her
designs to win the affections of the apparently perfect new girl,
Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature
of control and madness, the novel gathers a suspended, unsettling
energy." "Now translated into six languages, I beati anni del castigo
in its Italian original won the 1990 Premio Bagutta and the 1990
Premio Speciale Rapallo. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with
its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem"), Sweet Days of
Discipline was selected as one of the London Times Literary
Supplement's Notable Books of 1992: "In a period when novels are
generally over-blown and scarcely portable, it is good to be able to
recommend [one that is] miraculously short and beautifully
written.""--BOOK JACKET.
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