Imported from Canada, the writer Rachel Cusk is already managed as one of the best current British writers. Something like the nobel prize for literature Kazuo Ishiguro Only, in the case of Rachel, she arrived to the islands from the other side of the world and obviously, without a Nobel Prize.
The point is that in Rachel she is already that leading writer of the Anglo-Saxon world with a novelistic career that runs parallel to her non-fiction work, where she focuses on social issues or more human aspects in the form of essays, or even opening plots of her own life more personal.
In one or another aspect of her narrative, in her characters or in herself made the voice of her works, we always find the author committed to the truth. From the ins and outs of our behavior, with the consequences of our variable actions in our vital time, Rachel Cusk travels through what remains, among the rubble of who we are, to the rescue of essences.
Top 3 Recommended Books by Rachel Cusk
A backlight
The beginning of a unique trilogy in which Cusk takes the opportunity to execute her transcript as the writer who sees, observes and shapes her visions of our world. The author's ingenuity composes a mosaic of impressions about the world. A brilliant canvas that her alter ego as a writer overloads in color with her portraits marked initially and later abandoned, as if narrating a miscegenation of souls that advance before the eyes of the narrator.
The very structure of the novel unravels towards that innovation, matching perfectly in that avant-garde of form and substance sustained with the beauty of an exquisite prose that always finds the transcendent word and the metaphor that ignites everything.
An English writer arrives in Athens in the middle of summer to teach writing courses. During her stay in the Greek capital, the people who meet decide to open up to her and tell her important aspects about their own lives.In the suffocating heat of the city, the different interlocutors confess their loves, their ambitions and their fears to the narrator, from whom we hardly know that she is separated and is the mother of two children.
In this way, a sequence of alien voices traces a complex human tapestry that will end up outlining by contrast the personality of the narrator and the most decisive events of her life: the feeling of loss, the search for meaning in family life, the difficulty in establishing bonds of trust or the mystery of creativity. Against the light he tells us about how we build our identity from our own life and that of others. Published in 2014 and critically acclaimed, A Contraluz confirms Rachel Cusk as one of the most brilliant writers in contemporary literature.
Prestige
In English this novel takes the name of kudos, recognition, prestige or praise in Greek. Nothing better to close a trilogy that takes flight in this third part. On a plane, a woman listens to her flight neighbor tell her the story of her life: her job, her marriage, and the horrible night she just spent burying the family dog. This woman is Faye, a writer who travels to Europe to promote the book she just published.
At his destination, his conversations with the people he meets reveal to the reader the deepest human concerns about family, love, politics, art, or justice and injustice. The tension between what his interlocutors are and what they claim to be increases as the narrative progresses. A brilliant investigation of the limits of narrative conventions with which Rachel Cusk has reinvented the way of writing a novel today.
Transit
The second part of the trilogy. Perhaps the most decaffeinated of the three installments due to retaking such an innovative work as "A Contraluz". But it is the usual, when a work reaches a considerable level, the abyss of its possible continuation inevitably looms. Even more so when the change of record in substance and form is immediately glimpsed. Still, it is a great novel that is tangentially close to his most personal book «Remains«, Which narrated his divorce.
After a painful emotional breakup, a writer moves to London with her two children. The collapse of his marriage and his home has caused profound changes - moral, artistic, practical - in his way of seeing life. In London she will try to build a new existence for her children and for herself and will have to face aspects of daily life that until now she had avoided and that allow her to reflect on what makes us vulnerable or powerful, why sometimes we let ourselves go and sometimes we take the reins of our life.
Filtered through the cold gaze of its clever storyteller, Transit delves into the topics of the celebrated A backlight in an insightful inquiry into how we tell what happens to us. Cusk captures with particular honesty that very human feeling of wanting to rush life to the bottom and at the same time wanting to flee from it. A novel that has consolidated her as one of the most prominent English female narrators of the present time. The second installment of the cycle started with the brilliant A backlight, Rachel Cusk is writing one of the most solid and fascinating works of fiction today.
