Fleur Jaeggy - Collected Works (6 books)

* Fleur Jaeggy - Collected Works (6 books)

FLEUR JAEGGY (b. 1940) is a Swiss-born writer who writes in Italian and has become one of the most distinctive—and unsettling—voices in contemporary European literature. She is known for her radically spare prose, emotional coldness, and fixation on childhood, discipline, and psychic estrangement. Her work resists sentimentality and psychological explanation, instead cultivating an austere, almost glacial tone in which cruelty, devotion, and intimacy coexist without moral commentary.

Jaeggy first gained wide recognition with I AM THE BROTHER OF XX (1982), a novel that established many of her defining concerns: obsessive bonds, arrested development, and the eerie intensity of interior life. These themes reach a chilling refinement in SWEET DAYS OF DISCIPLINE (1989), her most celebrated book, which depicts the charged friendship between two girls at a Swiss boarding school. The novel’s controlled, jewel-like sentences and emotional severity have made it a cult classic, often compared to the work of Robert Walser and Thomas Bernhard, though Jaeggy’s voice remains unmistakably her own.

Her later novels, including PROLETERKA (2001) and LAST VANITIES (1994), continue to explore emotional isolation and familial unease, often through brief, compressed narratives that feel closer to extended prose poems than conventional novels. In Proleterka, a father–daughter relationship unfolds during a Mediterranean cruise, rendered with a haunting restraint that turns silence into a form of violence. Alongside her fiction, Jaeggy has published short prose and essays, collected in volumes such as THESE POSSIBLE LIVES (2009), which further reveal her fascination with marginal figures, forgotten writers, and lives shaped by severity and withdrawal.

Across her body of work, Jaeggy has cultivated a literature of precision and refusal: refusal of warmth, of consolation, of explanatory depth. What emerges instead is a stark emotional clarity, one that exposes the strange beauty and menace of discipline, loyalty, and inner solitude. Her writing may be minimal in surface, but it leaves a lasting, almost bruising impression—proof that intensity does not require excess.


The following books are in PDF or ePUB format as noted:

== NOVELS ==

* Last Vanities [tr. Parks] (New Directions, 1998) – PDF
* Proleterka [tr. McEwen] (New Directions, 2003 / And Other Stories, 2019) – ePUB / PDF
* Sweet Days of Discipline [tr. Parks] (New Directions, 1993 / And Other Stories, 2018) – ePUB / PDF
* The Water Statues [tr. Alhadeff] (New Directions, 2021) – ePUB

== SHORT STORIES ==

* I Am the Brother of XX [tr. Alhadeff] (New Directions, 2017) – ePUB / PDF

== ESSAYS ==

* These Possible Lives [tr. Proctor] (New Directions, 2017) – ePUB / PDF


* NOTE: All PDFs created by and courtesy of @Mohamed5438.


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