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Proleterka
- Title
- Proleterka / Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
- Author
- Jaeggy, Fleur
- Publication
- Sheffield ; New York : And Other Stories, 2019.
- ©2003
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Details
- Additional Authors
- McEwen, Alastair
- Description
- 89 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- 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 l̀ast 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.
- Uniform Title
- Proleterka. English
- Alternative Title
- Proleterka.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Note
- "This translation first published in 2003 in the USA by New Directions, with the title SS Proleterka"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-5
- ISBN
- 9781911508564
- 1911508563
- OCLC
- 1082406948
- Author
- Jaeggy, Fleur, author.
- Title
- Proleterka / Fleur Jaeggy ; translated by Alastair McEwen.
- Publisher
- Sheffield ; New York : And Other Stories, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2003
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- McEwen, Alastair, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-5