A fifteen-year-old girl and her father, Johannes, take a cruise to
Greece on the SS Proleterka. Jaeggy recounts the girl's youth in
her distinctively strange, telescopic prose: the remarried mother,
cold and unconcerned; the father who was allowed only rare visits
with the child; the years spent stashed away with relatives or at
boarding school. For the girl and her father, their time on the
ship becomes their `last and first chance to be together.' On
board, she becomes the object of the sailors' affection, receiving
a violent, carnal education. Mesmerised by the desire to be
experienced, she crisply narrates her trysts as well as her
near-total neglect of her father.Proleterka is a ferocious study of
distance, diffidence and `insomniac resentment.'
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