Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004
Love Letter
By Tim Parks
SS Proleterka
by Fleur Jaeggy, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
New Directions, 122 pp., $17.95 (paper)
When teaching the limits and possibilities of literary translation, one tends to consider those writers whose highly individual styles pose special problems. For some years I have been putting the following passage from Fleur Jaeggy's novel of 1989, Sweet Days of Discipline, before my students in Milan. The Swiss-born Jaeggy lives in Italy and writes in Italian, but her narrator here is speaking of her girlhood in a Swiss boarding school, presumably in the early 1950s:
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