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New Directions Is Proud To Present Fleur JaeggyS Strange And Mesmerizing Essays About The Writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, And Marcel Schwob. A Renowned Stylist OfhyperBrevity In Fiction, Fleur Jaeggy Proves Herself An Even More Concise Master Of The Essay Form, Albeit In A Most Peculiar And Lapidary Poetic Vein. Of De QuinceyS Early NineteenthCentury World We Hear Of The Habits Of Writers: Charles Lamb Spoke Of Lilliputian Rabbits When Eating Frog Fricassse; Henry Fuseli Ate A Diet Of Raw Meat In Order To Obtain Splendid Dreams; Hazlitt Was Perceptive About Musculature And Boxers; And Wordsworth Used A Buttery Knife To Cut The Pages Of A FirstEdition Burke. In A Book Of Blue Devils And Night Visions, The Keats Essay Opens: In 1803, The Guillotine Was A Common ChildS Toy. And Poor SchwobS End Comes As He Feels Like A Dog Cut Open Alive: His Face Colored Slightly, Turning Into A Mask Of Gold. His Eyes Stayed Open Imperiously. No One Could Shut His Eyelids. The Room Smoked Of Grief. Fleur JaeggyS EssaysOr Are They Prose Poems?Smoke Of Necessity: The Pages Are On Fire.
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