Books by Fleur Jaeggy
“This is breaking form a little, but I am begging you not to let this stop you from reading this and every other Jaeggy book. If you really need to imagine this book as a novel, think of it as being narrated by a fictional character who is a very creative aspiring biographer summarizing the lives of a few different people about whom she might later write a whole biography.” Read more...
The Best Counterfactual Novels
Catherine Lacey, Novelist
“These are intense bursts, these short stories. There’s no right or wrong. Only ambivalence. You’re left to the discomfort that produces. You have to sit with it and let it linger. Oh, they’re so good.” Read more...
Sue Rainsford, Novelist
Interviews where books by Fleur Jaeggy were recommended
Literary Horror Books, recommended by Sue Rainsford
The most unnerving and disturbing novels are often those books that leave room for interpretation and uncertainty. Here, the acclaimed Irish novelist Sue Rainsford selects five frightening works of literary horror, by authors who are masters of the unsettling implication—because nothing is quite so scary as what you dream up to fill the voids.
The Best Counterfactual Novels, recommended by Catherine Lacey
Novelists often make the decision to create alternate realities—worlds that are very like, but not quite identical, to our own. Catherine Lacey, the acclaimed novelist whose latest book Biography of X is set in a United States in which the Southern states seceded during the 20th century, talks us through the process of plotting counterfactual timelines and recommends five books that explore the slippery relation between truth, reality, and fiction.
