Proleterka
Details
Klappentext Readers of "Pond" and Djuna Barnes are set to be absorbed in this reissued Swiss novel's skewed vision. A young girl gives a lurid account of her coming-of-age in the hulk of a Yugoslavian passenger vessel, fraternising with the sailors and neglecting her father.
Autorentext
Fleur Jaeggy is a true original of European writing and has been translated into over twenty languages. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo.
Klappentext
A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother, cold and unconcerned; the father who was allowed only rare visits with the child; the years spent stashed away with relatives or at boarding school. For the girl and her father, their time on the ship becomes their 'last and first chance to be together.' On board, she becomes the object of the sailors' affection, receiving a violent, carnal education. Mesmerised by the desire to be experienced, she crisply narrates her trysts as well as her near-total neglect of her father. Proleterka is a ferocious study of distance, diffidence and 'insomniac resentment.'
Zusammenfassung
Compressed, delicate and brutally precise, Proleterka is a fierce coming-of-age story.
Weitere Informationen
- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09781911508564
- Sprache Englisch
- Übersetzer Alastair McEwen
- Titel Proleterka
- Veröffentlichung 28.03.2019
- ISBN 978-1-911508-56-4
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- EAN 9781911508564
- Jahr 2019
- Autor Jaeggy Fleur
- Genre Romane & Erzählungen
- Anzahl Seiten 96
- Herausgeber AND OTHER STORIES