Proleterka

by Fleur Jaeggy

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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 `last 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.Proleterka is a ferocious study of distance, diffidence and `insomniac resentment.'
  • ISBN10 8483102609
  • ISBN13 9788483102602
  • Publish Date 6 March 2007 (first published 1 July 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint TusQuets
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Language Spanish