Sweet Days of Discipline Adolf Loos A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel

Far beyond jaded

its repeated patterns of personal and institutional forgetting that

Alberto doesn’t tell her anything about himself and she asks few questions

Sweet Days of Discipline Adolf Loos A wildly original fin-de-siècle novelOn 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 Jaeggys 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