Jaeggy, Fleur

These Possible Lives

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ISBN 13:
9780811226875
author:
Jaeggy, Fleur
format:
Paperback
publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
language:
English
Publication Year:
2017
Pages:
64
Dimensions:
17.53 x 12.7 x 0.76 centimetres
Genre:
Biography, Literary, Fiction & Literature
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 7 working days
£11.20

Description

Fleur Jaeggy's essays are a masterclass in concise prose. In this collection, she explores the lives and works of three 19th-century writers: Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. Through vivid descriptions of their habits and obsessions, Jaeggy reveals the darker side of creativity. In her writing, Jaeggy finds a strange and mesmerizing beauty. Her prose is spare, yet evocative, conjuring images of writers at work: Charles Lamb's "Lilliputian rabbits" on his plate, Henry Fuseli's raw meat diet for dreams, and Wordsworth's buttery knife slicing through pages. The result is a book that feels like a series of prose poems, each one a self-contained world of smoke and necessity. Jaeggy's writing is a testament to the power of concise language. Her essays are on fire with an inner urgency, as if the very act of writing has set them ablaze. This is a book that will leave you breathless, its pages burning with a fierce intensity.

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