Author: Fleur Jaeggy

A wife is suspended in a bird cage; a thirteenth-century visionary senses the foreskin of Christ on her tongue: Fleur Jaeggy's gothic imagination k...

Fleur Jaeggy is often noted for her terse and telegraphic style, which somehow brews up a profound paradox that seems bent on haunting the reader: ...

A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to Greece on the SS Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in her distinctive...

Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among Jaeggys singular and intricate wo...

A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggys eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: At fourteen I w...

New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggys strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob....

Set in post-war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. ...