These possible lives
(Book)
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of De Quincey's early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits of writers: Charles Lamb "spoke of 'Lilliputian rabbits' when eating frog fricassse"; Henry Fuseli "ate a diet of raw meat in order to obtain splendid dreams"; "Hazlitt was perceptive about musculature and boxers"; and "Wordsworth used a buttery knife to cut the pages of a first-edition Burke." In a book of "blue devils" and night visions, the Keats essay opens: "In 1803, the guillotine was a common child's toy." And poor Schwob's end comes as he feels "like a 'dog cut open alive'": "His face colored slightly, turning into a mask of gold. His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could shut his eyelids. The room smoked of grief." Fleur Jaeggy's essays--or are they prose poems?--smoke of necessity: the pages are on fire. -
Notes
Jaeggy, F., & Proctor, M. (2017). These possible lives. First American paperback edition. New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur and Minna, Proctor. 2017. These Possible Lives. New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur and Minna, Proctor, These Possible Lives. New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur, and Minna Proctor. These Possible Lives. First American paperback edition. New York, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
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