- Fleur Jaeggy
Fleur Jaeggy (
Zurich , 1940) is a Swisswriter , of Italian mother tongue.Life
After she completes her studies in Switzerland, Jaeggy goes to live in
Rome , where she meetsIngeborg Bachmann andThomas Bernhard . In 1968 she goes toMilan to collaborate with the "Adelphi editions". Her first masterpiece is the novel "I beati anni del castigo" (1989).Times Literary Supplement accounts her novel "Proleterka" as the best book of 2003. She is also atranslator into Italian ofMarcel Schwob andThomas de Quincey .elected bibliography
Novels
*"Il dito in bocca",
Adelphi , 1968
*"L'angelo custode", Adelphi, 1971
*"Le statue d'acqua", Adelphi, 1980
*"I beati anni del castigo", Adelphi, 1989
*"La paura del cielo", Adelphi, 1994
*"Proleterka", Adelphi, 2001Translations
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Marcel Schwob , "Vite immaginarie", Adelphi, 1972
*Thomas de Quincey , "Gli ultimi giorni di Immanuel Kant", Adelphi, 1983External links
* [http://www.italialibri.net/autori/jaeggyf.html Fleur Jaeggy on ItaliaLibri]
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