The water statues
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Alhadeff, Gini, translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Paperback Original, 2021.
Status
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
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F JAEGG
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Published
New York : New Directions Paperback Original, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Notes
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"Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with wealth's loneliness and 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 (milling about as often in the distant past as in the mansion's garden full of intoxicated snails)-delivers like a slap an indelible picture of the swampiness of family life"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jaeggy, F., & Alhadeff, G. (2021). The water statues (First edition.). New Directions Paperback Original.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur and Gini, Alhadeff. 2021. The Water Statues. New Directions Paperback Original.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur and Gini, Alhadeff. The Water Statues New Directions Paperback Original, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jaeggy, Fleur,, and Gini Alhadeff. The Water Statues First edition., New Directions Paperback Original, 2021.
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