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Rachel Cusk

    8 februari 1967

    Rachel Cusk is een auteur wiens werken bekend staan om hun scherpe verkenning van persoonlijke en maatschappelijke thema's door middel van een innovatieve vertelstijl. Haar proza, vaak geïnspireerd door autobiografische elementen, duikt in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties, identiteit en de zoektocht naar betekenis in de hedendaagse wereld. Cusk onderzoekt de diepe psychologische toestanden van haar personages en daagt tegelijkertijd traditionele narratieve vormen uit. Haar kenmerkende stem biedt lezers een provocerende en reflectieve ervaring.

    Rachel Cusk
    Outline, English edition
    Kudos
    Medea
    A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
    Transit
    Het buitenleven
    • 2024

      A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies.

      Parade
    • 2023

      Un Trabajo Para Toda La Vida

      • 224bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      3,7(442)Tarief

      La experiencia de la maternidad es una experiencia en contradicción. Es un lugar común y es imposible de imaginar. Es prosaico y es misterioso. Es a la vez banal, extraño, convincente, tedioso, cómico y catastrófico. Ser madre es convertirse en el actor principal de un drama de la existencia humana al que nadie se presenta. Es el proceso por el cual una vida ordinaria se transforma invisible en una historia de extrañas y poderosas pasiones, de amor y servidumbre, de encierro. y compasión". "En un libro que es conmovedor, hilarante, provocativo y profundamente perspicaz, la novelista Rachel Cusk intenta contar algo de una vieja historia ambientada en una nueva era de igualdad sexual. El relato de Cusk sobre un año de maternidad moderna se convierte en muchas historias: una despedida de la libertad, el sueño y el tiempo; una lección de humildad y trabajo duro; un viaje a las raíces del amor; una meditación sobre la locura y la mortalidad; y sobre todo, una educación sentimental en bebés, libros, grupos de niños pequeños, malos consejos, llanto, lactancia y nunca estar solo

      Un Trabajo Para Toda La Vida
    • 2022

      Du Monde Entier: La dépendance

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      Romancière qui s'est isolée depuis son second mariage avec Tony, M. n'écrit plus mais rêve d'accueillir pour une résidence d'artistes L., un peintre renommé qu'elle admire. Il finit par accepter son invitation mais se présente en compagnie d'une jeune fiancée irritante, de sa fille et du compagnon de cette dernière. Les six adultes cohabitent mais des tensionsapparaissent rapidement.

      Du Monde Entier: La dépendance
    • 2021

      A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds

      Second Place
    • 2020

      Rachel Cusk beschreibt in ihrem persönlichen und politischen Buch die Folgen ihrer Trennung. Sie reflektiert über die Herausforderungen, als Schriftstellerin nach der Geburt ihrer Töchter weiterzuarbeiten, während ihr Mann den Haushalt führt. Cusk untersucht die Krise der Ehe, das Gefühl des Verlusts und die Suche nach neuer Identität.

      Danach
    • 2019

      Coventry

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,8(2538)Tarief

      NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

      Coventry
    • 2018

      Kudos

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      3,9(1553)Tarief

      Cusk ist besser als Knausgård. Berliner Zeitung

      Kudos
    • 2016

      Transit

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen
      4,0(14931)Tarief

      In the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, and practical - as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed novel Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility and the mystery of change. '[Transit] confirms that one of the most fascinating projects in contemporary fiction is unfolding in Rachel Cusk's trilogy.' Adam Foulds

      Transit
    • 2015

      SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A woman arrives in Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Once there, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives. Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voices begins to weave a complex human tapestry: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself. SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE, THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC PRIZE

      Outline, English edition
    • 2015

      Medea

      • 104bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen
      3,9(70200)Tarief

      World premiere of a new version of Euripides' classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeida's Greek Season. Medea's marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of revenge and liberty, Euripides' seminal play cuts to the heart of gender politics and asks what it means to be a woman and a wife. One of world drama's most infamous characters is brought to controversial new life by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold (The Merchant of Venice, King Charles III, American Psycho) and award-winning writer Rachel Cusk (Outline, Aftermath).

      Medea