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    612-822-4611

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These Possible Lives

These Possible Lives

Proctor, Minna
Jaeggy, Fleur

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Literary FiguresGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 0811226875
ISBN13: 9780811226875
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Jul 25 2017
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.10
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of De Quincey's early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits of writers: Charles Lamb spoke of 'Lilliputian rabbits' when eating frog fricassse; Henry Fuseli ate a diet of raw meat in order to obtain splendid dreams; Hazlitt was perceptive about musculature and boxers; and Wordsworth used a buttery knife to cut the pages of a first-edition Burke. In a book of blue devils and night visions, the Keats essay opens: In 1803, the guillotine was a common child's toy. And poor Schwob's end comes as he feels like a 'dog cut open alive' His face colored slightly, turning into a mask of gold. His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could shut his eyelids. The room smoked of grief. Fleur Jaeggy's essays--or are they prose poems?--smoke of necessity: the pages are on fire.

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