Book description
Compressed, delicate, but brutally precise, S. S. Proleterka is a fiercely boiled-down bildungsroman from the presiding genius of dry-ice, Fleur Jaeggy. The S. S. Proleterka is a Yugoslavian ship; our fifteen-year-old protagonist and her financially ruined, distant, yet somehow beloved father, Johannes, take a cruise together on it to Greece.…
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1 author picked S. S. Proleterka as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Fleur Jaeggy’s writing preserves the mysteries of being alive, especially the mysteries of being a child.
I love how her writing moves back and forth in time and tense—is it the past or the present, childhood or adulthood?—with such ease that it’s impossible not to feel the slippage between reality and memory. Plus, every sentence is gorgeous.
Whenever I think about not knowing my own father, or I have the suspicion that nothing and no one is truly knowable, or I simply want to remember what it feels like to be in the company of brilliant writing, I read Jaeggy.
From Brittany's list on f*cked up kids of f*cked up parents.
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