Sweet Days of Discipline
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On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
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chưa bao giờ thôi mê những cảnh lét biên trên nền trường nội trú, văn cũng rất là đẹp nhưng vẫn thấy thiếu thiếu gì đó (trân châu chưa đủ hoàn hảo? đường đá chưa thực sự đạt tới tỷ lệ vàng?) để thực sự là tách trà sữa của tôi, thứ có lẽ giờ đây tôi cũng đã quên cả vị :-?
Sweet Days of Discipline is a poetic, detached and gloomy portrait of what it means to grow up in boarding schools in the middle of the last century. The complications of adolescence, friendships and infatuations, remote parents, in the rigid structure of education and discipline. Detachments are formed and ripped apart, what stays is a cold and melancholy feeling. The further it went along the more the prose just fluttered apart. I wanted more narrative structure.
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