Coventry. Sulla vita, l'arte e la letteratura

This collection of essays combines memoir, social and literary criticism, and in a way, all of the texts are talking about storytelling: How we narrate our own lives and times is the main focus of Cusk's explorations. The author meditates about driving as a metaphor, the narrative families employ to Leggi tutto

Cusk is absurdly brilliant, acerbic, and honest - this collection shows much of the same spark as her fiction, especially in the more autobiographical essays like "Making Home" and the title essay - I wish the whole collection had been made of these, and admit to disappointment when it pivoted to he Leggi tutto

When I heard about a new book of essays by Rachel Cusk, I had two conflicting reactions: one was joy and one was sadness. Cusk is one of my favorite authors. She thinks deeply and can straightforwardly, analytically discuss her perceptions in involving prose but her characters can also demonstrate w Leggi tutto

The first part of this book is wonderful. When she gets personal on family, relationships, teenagers, it is a joy to read how lucid she is. But I was very surprised about how generic she sounds when she speaks of other writers books. Still she is always a joy to read.

I’m not sure if Cusk was being serious when she said ‘Then again, the feminist is supposed to hate men. She scorns the physical and emotional servitude they exact. She calls them the enemy’

While it was a very strange reading experience, I was quite impressed by Cusk's Rachel Cusk Collection: Outline, Transit and Kudos -trllogy. You could clearly see that she tried a new way of writing, sometimes with more, other times with less succes, but anyhow a bold and lucid experiment. The readin Leggi tutto