Rachel Cusk

Outline

Rachel Cusk

2014

Faye, a divorced novelist attending a writers' workshop in Greece, navigates a series of encounters and conversations that reveal the fragmented nature of identity and storytelling. Through a mosaic of overheard dialogues and Faye's own reflections, Cusk explores themes of authorship, relationships, and the construction of self, blurring the lines between autobiography and fiction. The narrative's unique structure, comprised of discrete, often unsettling vignettes, challenges conventional plot progression to delve into the psychological undercurrents of its characters.

A life's work

Rachel Cusk

2001

Mothers are the countries we come from: sometimes when I hold my daughter I try to apprehend this belonging for her, to feel myself as solid and fixed, to capture my smell and shape and atmosphere. I try to flesh out her native landscape. I try to imagine what it would be like to have me as a mother.