![]() ![]() Rachel Cusk makes this great literary achievement appear to be easy in Kudos, or in a sense unnegotiable - it is after all an inherent part of the writer’s job. It is rare for a novel to achieve a perfect synthesis of form and content. In 2015, Cusk’s version of Medea was staged at the Almeida Theatre. Rachel Cusk is the author of nine novels and three works of non-fiction, which have won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes. The trilogy is one of the great achievements in fiction. Kudos completes Rachel Cusk’s trilogy with overwhelming power. These conversations, the last of them with her son, rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion. ![]() Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets – about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice – are the most far-reaching questions human beings ask. That woman is Faye, who is now on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published. ![]() A woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to her telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |