num_pages: 128
description: 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: despite a sort of zero-at-the-bone baseline her fiction is weirdly also incredibly moving. How does she do it? No one knows. But here in her newest collection I Am the Brother of XX she does it again. Like a magician or a master criminal who can say how she gets away with it but whether the stories involve famous writers (Calvino Ingeborg Bachmann Joseph Brodsky) or baronesses or 13th-century visionaries or tormented siblings bred up in elite Swiss boarding schools they somehow steal your heart. And they dont rest at that but endlessly disturb your mind.
language: English
title: I Am the Brother of XX
publisher: New Directions