Description
In these strange, hypnotic essays, Fleur Jaeggy turns three literary lives—De Quincey, Keats, and Marcel Schwob—into razor-brief portraits that feel at once intimate and uncanny. With her signature hyperbrevity, she traces the habits, obsessions, and private visions that shaped each writer’s mind, moving through a world of “blue devils” and night-haunted detail. The result is a meditation on how art is made from temperament as much as from talent, where biography becomes lyric and the smallest observation can open onto vast inner weather. Each piece builds toward the subject’s end, not as a spoiler of fate, but as a final, haunting punctuation to the life’s strange logic.
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paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2017
60 pages
ISBN: 9780811226875
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First Published
2017
Language
eng
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