New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and
mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats,
and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction,
Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master of the
essay form, albeit in a most peculiar and lapidary poetic vein. Of
De Quincey's early nineteenth-century world we hear of the habits
of writers: Charles Lamb "spoke of 'Lilliputian rabbits' when
eating frog fricassse"; Henry Fuseli "ate a diet of raw meat in
order to obtain splendid dreams"; "Hazlitt was perceptive about
musculature and boxers"; and "Wordsworth used a buttery knife to
cut the pages of a first-edition Burke." In a book of "blue devils"
and night visions, the Keats essay opens: "In 1803, the guillotine
was a common child's toy." And poor Schwob's end comes as he feels
"like a 'dog cut open alive'": "His face colored slightly, turning
into a mask of gold. His eyes stayed open imperiously. No one could
shut his eyelids. The room smoked of grief." Fleur Jaeggy's
essays-or are they prose poems?-smoke of necessity: the pages are
on fire.
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