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Pared down, minimalist, glacial stories about love and especially its absence, madness, and loneliness. I know, here I go again ? At some point I'll try to think of a "happy" book.

A quote from one of Jaeggy's stories, translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff:

"Families are so strong. They have all of advertising on their side. But a person alone is nothing but a shipwreck."

"Knowledge doesn't know." #paradox #QuotsyNov17 @TK-421

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My first time reading Jaeggy. I'm enchanted & disturbed. She's a Swiss writer of Italian mother tongue; this was translated by Gini Alhadeff. It's a brief book of very short stories, some only two pages. No traditional sense of plot or character development. I would call her style gothic minimalism. Crystalline, laconic sentences. Death, theology, & the anxious claustrophobia of families. Love in its contorted form. Her stories will haunt me.

Pungent, dark, acerbic stories from the formidable mind of Fleur Jaeggy. She has a way of zooming in on things one would rather not think about. (Translated from Italian by Gini Alhadeff.)

Bookish lunch... Salmon with Quinua...