Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity Sixty-two years later

Sixty-two years later

and they're desperate for the applause (and attention) they once had

she wears a special custom-made dress - the very same dress that was sewn for a different wearer

or the spontaneous and cathartic practice of the writer's 'morning pages' - until they reach the book's arresting central sequence

with maximum energy and a minimal budget

Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity Sixty-two years laterSet in post war Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's novel begins simply and innocently enough: `At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell'. But there is nothing truly simple or innocent here. With the offhanded knowingness of a remorseless young Eve, the narrator describes life as a captive of the school and her designs to win the affections of the seemingly perfect new girl, Frederique. As she broods over her schemes as well as on the nature