Fleur Jaeggy
Fleur Jaeggy (born July 30, 1940 in Zurich ) is an Italian-speaking Swiss writer .
Life
Jaeggy was born in Zurich and grew up in Switzerland. She has lived in Milan since 1968 and is married to the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso . Jaeggy's language is dense, concise, convincing through reduction and the trick of apparently non-reflective "one-to-one" storytelling. She writes in Italian, but her books are translated into German and her subjects are Swiss: The bourgeoisie is criticized, the tightness and the cold. A paralyzed country is described. In some ways you feel reminded of Robert Walser's works or Fritz Zorn's cult book Mars .
The novella The Blessed Years of Chastisement , in which life in a girls' boarding school in Appenzell in the 1960s was dissected, was included in the twenty-volume book series “ Swiss Library ” in 2006.
She also translated Marcel Schwobs Vies imaginaires into Italian in 1972 and Thomas De Quincey's The Last Days of Immanuel Kant as well as Robert Schumann's Musical House and Life Rules in 1983 .
Works
- Il ditto in bocca. Milan 1968.
- L'angelo custode. Milan 1971.
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Le statue d'acqua. Milan 1980.
- Water statues . Matthes & Seitz , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-88221-349-3 .
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I beati anni del castigo. Milan 1989.
- The blessed years of chastisement. Novella. Berlin Verlag , Berlin 1996; Paperback, ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-8333-0102-3 .
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La paura del cielo. Milan 1994.
- The fear of the sky. Stories. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997; Piper, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-492-22602-7 .
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Proleterka. , Milan 2001.
- Proleterka . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8270-0481-0 .
- Vite congetturali. Milan 2009.
- The black lace veil. Narrative. Translated from the Italian by Barbara Villiger Heilig. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 8, 2012. online
- Sono il fratello di XX. Milan 2014. Awarded the Premio letterario internazionale Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , 2015.
literature
- Paola Gilardi: Fleur Jaeggy . In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero. Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 914. (Italian)
Web links
- Publications by and about Fleur Jaeggy in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Fleur Jaeggy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Fleur Jaeggy in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
- Short biography and reviews of works by Fleur Jaeggy at perlentaucher.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jaeggy, Fleur |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1940 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |