Rachel Cusk

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. When a mother dies, her children confront her legacy: the stories she told; the roles she assigned to them; the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they’ve inherited different things. Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

A Novel

Parade

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

Second Place

The Bradshaw variations

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

La seconda casa

Saving Agnes

Catalina Martínez Muñoz

Segunda casa

Un trabajo para toda la vida

Stella Benson, anxious to leave London and begin a new life, journeys to rural Sussex to work as an au pair for a decidedly overwhelming family, leading to questions about the true motivations for her extreme actions. Tour.

The Country Life

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel.

Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success.

In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas.

When a mother dies, her children confront her the stories she told; the roles she assigned to them; the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom.

An artist takes on a series of pseudonyms to conceal his work from his mother and father. His brother does the opposite. They share the same parents, but they’ve inherited different things.

Parade is a story that confronts and demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell a true story—about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is.

Parade 

Über Ehe und Trennung

Danach

Coventry

Nadine Monem

Steph Donse

Sophia Sapouna

Marble in Metamorphosis contemplates the physical and cultural life of marble. It explores the ethics, politics and symbolism of its use and deliberates over the spirit of the material and why some cultures so revere and desire it. In reflecting on the deep relationship between marble and human culture, it considers the social and historical function of the material throughout time.Marble in Metamorphosis features a new essay on marble and its uses written by acclaimed novelist and writer Rachel Cusk, who - while on a trip to a marble bearing island in Greece's Aegean sea - writes on the modern notion of classicism, the fate of monuments through history and the tension between classicism and realism in art and architecture. Chris Kontos' of Kennedy Magazine photographic series explores two landscapes marked by marble and its uses: the island of Tinos, with its long tradition of marble mining and craft; and Athens, which has an ancient and enduring connection to marble evident in its ubiquitous presence throughout the city. These photographs tell a story of extraction, craft, tradition, and how meaning is made and remade through marble as a material in the city.

Marble in Metamorphosis

On Becoming a Mother

Life's Work

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions - personal, moral, artistic, 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 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 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. In this precise, short and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language towards it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real.

Transit

Olivia Manning

Eduardo Jordá

Una pareja inglesa de recién casados, Guy y Harriet Pringle, llega a Bucarest, la llamada París del Este, en el otoño de 1939, apenas unas semanas después de la invasión alemana de Polonia. Los habitantes de esta ciudad llena de contrastes, inmersa en la incertidumbre por la guerra y la inestabilidad política, se aferran a una vibrante vida cotidiana mientras el caos se apodera de Rumanía y del resto de Europa. Entretanto, Harriet empezará a conocer realmente a su marido, un extrovertido profesor universitario que se rodea de un animado círculo social, y tratará de encontrar su lugar dentro de ese peculiar elenco formado por estirados diplomáticos, damas acaudaladas, pícaros seductores y arribistas.

La gran fortuna

O femeie invită un pictor celebru, aflat în amurgul carierei, să petreacă un timp în casa ei de oaspeți, într-o zonă izolată de coastă, unde ea însăși duce o viață simplă și naturală alături de familie. Impresionată de tablourile lui, în special de peisajele care par să rezoneze în mod straniu cu împrejurimile casei, ea e convinsă că artistul o poate ajuta să pătrundă misterul din centrul vieții ei. Dar, pe măsură ce în regiune se instalează o vară lungă și uscată, prezența lui provocatoare devine ea însăși o enigmă, spulberând liniștea traiului așezat al gazdelor. Locul secund, noul roman al lui Rachel Cusk, este un studiu profund despre geometria relațiilor umane, despre destinul feminin și privilegiul masculin, despre moralitatea vieții și a artei și despre cum aceasta din urmă ne poate deopotrivă salva și distruge. O parabolă a sufletului uman în luptă cu cei mai întunecați demoni ai săi. „O dramă persuasivă, plină de reflecții surprinzătoare despre artă, cultură, relații de putere, moralitate, despre ce înseamnă a fi părinte... Un roman pătrunzător, profund, de o onestitate tulburătoare.“ Independent „Ca în toate cărțile lui Cusk, naratoarea analizează fiecare emoție de parcă a fost abia inventată. Fiecare detaliu devine esențial.“ The New York Times „O analiză incomodă, dar fascinantă a creativității, a privirii masculine și a condiționării de gen pe care o suportă experiența libertății.“ Guardian „Una dintre cele mai mari realizări ale literaturii noului mileniu.“ NPR

Locul secund

"Agnes Day is mildly discontent ... she's living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on without her. Not only does she not know how to get back into the game, she isn't even sure what the game is. But she gives a good performance - until she learns that her roommates and her boyfriend are keeping secrets from her, and that her boss is quitting and leaving her in charge. In great despair, she decides to make it her business to set things straight."--Publisher description

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