Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity or the spontaneous and cathartic

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

As the 1970s gave way to the 80s

with maximum energy and a minimal budget

Bent under the yoke of too many burdens

But only one of the two is destined to be a star

Sweet Days of Discipline masculinity or the spontaneous and catharticSet 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