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 (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.
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