I laugh whenever a character tells Faye how nice it’s been talking to her and they must do it again. These novels are anti-confessional - their narrator (and authorial alter ego), Faye, is the most reticent of their wide cast of characters - yet they consist mostly of compilations of others’ confessions. The books are entrancing and compulsively readable even though they lack the conventional propulsive mechanisms of fiction: plots or even a discernible sense of progression.Ĭusk’s is a peculiar sort of autofiction, one that suppresses the “auto” in favor of a form that bears some resemblance to oral history. The cycle constitutes an artistic breakthrough and a triumph within this decade’s international turn to autofiction. Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Kudos, completes the trilogy she began in 2014 with Outline and extended in 2016 with Transit.
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