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The Water Statues

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa’s flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea.

Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy’s austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues—with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls —delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: September 07, 2021

ISBN: 0811229750

ISBN 13: 9780811229753

The Water Statues

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa’s flooded basement, where memories shiver in uncertain light and the waters run off to the sea.

Dedicated to Ingeborg Bachmann and fleshed out with Jaeggy’s austere yet voluptuous style, The Water Statues—with its band of deracinated, loosely related souls —delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Directions

Release: September 07, 2021

ISBN: 0811229750

ISBN 13: 9780811229753

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