Festive re-reads: Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy | Festive re-reads
Fleur Jaeggy would like to see herself as something of a mystic.It’s something she aspires to, she admitted in an interview last year. The word mystic derives from the Greek mustē, an “initiated person”. When re-reading Sweet Days of Discipline, arguably the Swiss Italian author’s most famous work, it’s evident that she is such a person. Jaeggy is in on a secret, reaching at something beyond our understanding. Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy. Photograph: And Other StoriesThe novel from 1989, both slim and…