{"product_id":"these-possible-lives","title":"These Possible Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity 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 Quincey's early nineteenth-century 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 first-edition Burke.\" In a book of \"blue devils\" and night visions, the Keats essay opens: \"In 1803, the guillotine was a common child's toy.\" And poor Schwob's 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 Jaeggy's essays-or are they prose poems?-smoke of necessity: the pages are on fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fleur Jaeggy, Minna Proctor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780811226875\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 20170825\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43537855873085,"sku":"9780811226875","price":19.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780811226875.jpg?v=1788261602","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/these-possible-lives","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}