Last Vanities
By: Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Tim Parks.
Contributors: Parks, Tim.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: La paura del cielo
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 95
Description: Jaeggy has come up with seven stories, each at some deep level in dark complicity with the others, all as terse and spare as if etched with a steel tip. A brooding atmosphere of horror, a disturbing and subversive propensity for delirium haunts the violent gestures and chilly irony of these tales. Full of menace, the air they breathe is stirred only by the Fohn, the warm west wind of the Alps that inclines otherwise respectable citizens to vent the spleen and angst of life's last vanities.