Bøger af Rachel Cusk

En trykkende varm sommer tager forfatteren Faye til Athen for at undervise i et skrivekursus. Allerede i flyet på vej derned begynder livshistorierne at udfolde sig omkring hende, og hendes rejse bliver en rejse ind i andre menneskers fortællinger. Som en tom beholder med et lyttende øre lader hun sig udfylde af andres historier. Selvom der næsten intet røbes om Faye selv, tegner der sig gennem hendes spørgsmål og de mange samtaler et billede af en kvinde, der forsøger at komme sig over et stort tab. Pressen skriver: »Vanvittig interessant læsning ... Jeg sidder tilbage med fornemmelsen af at have læst en kommende klassiker.« ****** – Femina »Livskloge Rachel Cusk skriver sig ind under huden på sin læsere med en roman om kvinden alle har lyst til at betro sig til.« ***** – Politiken »Fornyer romankunsten.« ***** – Kristeligt Dagblad »Cusk udforsker friheden ved at tie helt stille. Det er frysende gjort.« – Weekendavisen »En virkelig vellykket roman. Forestil dig, at Henry James' psykologiske mesterværk 'De ensomme i Venedig' møder Karen Blixens øje for detalje og mystik, og du har en fornemmelse af, hvad Rachel Cusk kan.« – Litteratursiden

Omrids-trilogien gjorde Rachel Cusk verdenskendt som en blændende observatør og stilist. I denne bog vender hun blikket indad og beskriver sine oplevelser med at blive mor - på godt og ondt. En fortælling om at sige farvel til frihed, søvn og tid til at skrive, og en lektion i ydmyghed, hårdt arbejde og afgrundsdyb kærlighed. Bogen vakte stor forargelse, da den udkom i 2001, og gjorde Rachel Cusk til en af Englands mest kontroversielle forfattere. I dag regnes Et Livsværk for en milepæl i moderskabslitteraturen og har for længst fået klassikerstatus.”Cusk viser med stor styrke, hvor ømt og brutalt moderskab er.” - Independent ”Rachel Cusks bog om hendes første år som mor, er noget af det skarpeste, jeg har læst om moderskab.” - Berliner Zeitung

Efter sin skilsmisse flytter forfatteren Faye med sine to sønner til London for at begynde på en frisk. Men opbruddet fører andre ændringer med sig - af både personlig, moralsk, kunstnerisk og ikke mindst praktisk karakter. Faye sætter sit hus i stand og taler med de mennesker hun møder i et et forsøg på at genfinde troen på livet, men vakler mellem at føle sig stærk og fuldkommen magtesløs. En elegant og reflekteret roman om menneskers livsfortællinger; om hvordan vi forsøger at styre vores liv ved at fortælle, men også om, hvordan fortællingerne forvandler os. Andet bind af den kritikerroste trilogi, der består af bøgerne Omrids, Transit og Kudos. Pressen skriver: »En eminent forfatter: Andet bind i trilogien om Faye er lige så mesterligt som det første (…) det er stadig menneskers rejser gennem hinanden, der skaber det fantastiske samtidsportræt.« ***** – Politiken »Både hjem og ægteskab er smadret i Transit, anden del af Rachel Cusks mesterlige trilogi, der sender romangenren ad nye veje (…) allerede med de to første bind i trilogien står det lysende klart, at Rachel Cusk har gang i noget ganske særligt.« – Information »Rachel Cusk har skabt en romanform, hvor fortællerens samtalepartnere fylder det meste med dybe refleksioner (…) en helt speciel læseoplevelse.« **** – Kristeligt Dagblad »Tryllebindende.« – Litteratursiden

Forfatteren Faye er inviteret til en litteraturfestival i et sted i Europa for at promovere sin nye bog. Allerede på flyet falder hun i snak med sin sidemand, der begynder at fortælle hende om sit liv. Han fortæller om sit job, sit ægteskab og om den forfærdelige nat, han lige har tilbragt med at begrave familiens døde hund. På festivalen fortsætter Faye samtalerne med de mennesker, hun møder. De taler om de store spørgsmål i livet, om kunst, familie, politik, kærlighed, sorg og glæde, retfærdighed og uretfærdighed, udholdenhed og succes, i både kunsten og livet, og om de erfaringer, man gør sig gennem livets overgange. Med Kudos afsluttes Rachel Cusks kritikerroste og prisvindende trilogi, der er blevet kaldt for en fornyelse af romankunsten, på overbevisende og kraftfuld vis.

New paperback edition of the novel from the dazzlingly talented author of the Baileys-shortlisted Outline.

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about the its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own circumstances remain indistinct, she becomes the audience to a chain of narratives, as the people she meets tell her one after another the stories of their lives.Beginning with the neighbouring passenger on the flight out and his tales of fast boats and failed marriages, the storytellers talk of their loves and ambitions and pains, their anxieties, their perceptions and daily lives. In the stifling heat and noise of the city the sequence of voice begins to weave a complex human tapestry. The more they talk the more elliptical their listener becomes, as she shapes and directs their accounts until certain themes begin to emerge: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.Outline is a novel about writing and talking, about self-effacement and self-expression, about the desire to create and the human art of self-portraiture in which that desire finds its universal form.

Efter den kritikerroste Faye-trilogi er Rachel Cusk aktuel med Det andet sted, endnu en knivskarp roman fra en af vor tids mest kritikerroste engelsksprogede forfattere. Det andet sted er spækket med Cusks sylespidse sprog og observationer over ægteskab, forældreskab, begær og det at blive ældre.En kvindelig forfatter inviterer en kunstmaler, som hun længe har været dybt fascineret af, hjem til sit isolerede landsted i England, hvor hun bor sammen med sin nye mand. Her har hun istandsat et anneks, som forfattere og kunstnere kan bo i. Efter at maleren har holdt hende hen i flere måneder, dukker han pludselig op sammen med sin unge, smukke elskerinde. Et tiltagende komplekst og destruktivt socialt spil begynder at udfolde sig. Forfatteren higer efter malerens opmærksomhed, han for sin part ignorerer hende fuldkommen, når han ikke er direkte fjendtlig – indtil han en dag indvilger i at male hende, og alt spidser til. Både ægteskab og familierelationer sættes på spil i det drama, der udvikler sig i de nu tiltagende klaustrofobiske omgivelser i det engelske marskland - og personernes indre skyggesider begynder for alvor at spejle sig i deres handlinger.

Using her own life as a starting point, Rachel looks at the issues that arise for a woman in the years after she has lived the defining experiences of feminity. She writes about marriage, separation, motherhood, work, money, domesticity and love. Cusk considers the kinds of generational knowledge the contemporary woman harbours, the terrors or expectations that have been passed down to her and that are refracted through the modern transformation of female status.Aftermath is written in the personal/political mode that characterised A Life's Work, Cusk's acclaimed book about becoming a mother.

A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds. With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.

A Finalist for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionOne of The New York Times' Top Ten Books of the Year. Named a A New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, NPR, The Guardian, The Independent, Glamour, and The Globe and Mail Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.

From the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships. - A woman invites a famed artist to visit the remote coastal region where she lives, in the belief that his vision will penetrate the mystery of her life and landscape. Over the course of one hot summer, his provocative presence provides the frame for a study of female fate and male privilege, of the geometries of human relationships, and of the struggle to live morally between our internal and external worlds. With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.

National Bestseller . A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize . A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize . Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award . One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Notable Book . Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Southern Living, NOW Magazine, Commonweal, The Washington Independent Review of Books, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, BOMB Magazine, and The National Post (Canada) The Stunning Second Novel of a Trilogy That Began with Outline, One of New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearIn the wake of her family's collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions-personal, moral, artistic, and practical-as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city, she is made to confront aspects of living that 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 novel 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 second book of a precise and short yet epic cycle, Cusk describes the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life. 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.

A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy. Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies.

A vivid and elegant memoir of a familyΓÇÖs season abroad by the author of the Outline trilogy.When Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children, she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey, chronicled in The Last Supper, leads them to both the expected and the surprising, all seen through CuskΓÇÖs sharp and humane perspective.

Novellix – Stor litteratur i et lille formatEn æske fyldt med venskab. Her er fortællinger om loyalitet og om at dele alt. Om forrådt tillid og skuffelse, kærlighed og omtanke. Om venskaber på godt og ondt - på tre forskellige kontinenter. Noveller af fire af tidens mest priste internationale forfattere - til dig selv eller din bedste ven.Æsken indeholder fire bøger:Rachel Cusk – Det er sådan man gørLisa Taddeo – Weekend i forstadenChimamanda Ngozi Adichie – ApolloTessa Hadley – Solstik

I 2009 gennemgår Rachel Cusk en skilsmisse, og i efterdønningerne står en kvinde med sine to døtre. Hun er ramt, rasende og sårbar, og samtidig må hun definere rollen som kvinde, mor og menneske på ny. Og hun må forholde sig til egne bristede drømme og illusioner såvel som omverdenens forestillinger og konventioner.Som fraskilt føler hun sig kastet ud af fællesskabet af mere vellykkede kernefamilier og gifte venner, der trænger sig på med velmenende råd. Kan hun genfinde fodfæstet og skabe en ny hverdag for sig selv og sine børn, når intet længere føles stabilt eller normalt? Hvordan er man en god mor for sine teenagebørn? Og hvad med kærligheden?Efterskælv udkom på engelsk i 2012 og vakte furore. Den foregriber på mange måde den banebrydende Faye-trilogi (Omrids, Transit og Kudos), der har taget anmeldere og læsere med storm og har gjort Rachel Cusk verdensberømt, som en fornyer af romankunsten i form og skrivestil.I Efterskælv vender hun blikket indad og ser på parforholdet, kærligheden, moder- og forældreskabet gennem sit præcise og usentimentale sprog. Det er en undersøgelse og en fortælling, hvor sandhedssøgen aldrig går på kompromis med sprogets og fiktionens skønhed. Cusk forener lynskarp analyse med en rammende og rå beskrivelse af mennesker og relationer i krise og forandring. Det er en bog om en kvinde og en lille familie på vej gennem kaos fra et sted til et andet, fra en livsform til en anden. "Hun er så præcis, så præcis, så præcis!" Ida Jessen "En exceptionel formidler af kvindelig erfaring." Financial Times"Viser os, at litteraturen, i lighed med livet, er mest intens, når alt står på spil." Morgenbladet"Et mesterværk." Dagens Nyheter

I efterdønningerne af en skilsmisse står en kvinde med sine to døtre. Hun er ramt, rasende og sårbar, og samtidig må hun definere rollen som kvinde, mor og menneske på ny. Og hun må forholde sig til egne bristede illusioner såvel som omverdenens forestillinger og konventioner.Som fraskilt føler hun sig kastet ud af fællesskabet af mere vellykkede kernefamilier og gifte venner, der trænger sig på med velmenende råd. Kan hun genfinde fodfæstet og skabe en ny hverdag for sig selv og sine børn, når intet længere føles stabilt eller normalt? Hvordan er man en god mor for sine teenagebørn? Og hvad med kærligheden?Efterskælv udkom på engelsk i 2012 og vakte stor debat. Den foregriber på mange måde den banebrydende og roste Faye-trilogi (Omrids, Transit og Kudos), der har gjort Rachel Cusk verdensberømt som en fornyer af romankunstenI Efterskælv vender hun blikket indad og ser på parforholdet, kærligheden, moder- og forældreskabet gennem sit præcise og usentimentale sprog. Det er en undersøgelse og en fortælling, hvor sandhedssøgen aldrig går på kompromis med sprogets og fiktionens skønhed. Cusk forener lynskarp analyse med en rammende og rå beskrivelse af mennesker og relationer i krise og forandring. Det er en bog om en kvinde og en lille familie på vej gennem kaos fra et sted til et andet, fra en livsform til en anden.Denne bog er oversat af Ida Jessen.

NPR''s Favorite Books of 2019Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

When prize-winning author Rachel Cusk decides to travel to Italy for a summer with her husband and two young children she has no idea of the trials and wonders that lie in store. Their journey leads them to both the expected - the Piero della Francesca trail and queues at the Vatican - and the surprising - an amorous Scottish ex-pat and a longing for home - all seen through Cusk's sharp and humane perspective. Exploring the desire to travel and to escape, art and its inspirations, beauty and ugliness, and the challenge of balancing domestic life with creativity, The Last Supper is a wonderful travel book about life on the most famous art trail in the world, from one of Britain's most pre-eminent writers.

Agnes Day - sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle-class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by life's most basic interactions, Agnes discovers disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world, making recovery unlikely. Life and love go on without her, but with a little facade, she can pass herself off as a success. Beneath the fiction, however, the burden of truth becomes harder to bear. 'She is a writer with a poet's eye for convincing detail, and touches on the raw emotions of life in a way that is affecting and true.' Sunday Telegraph'Told with irony and insight and some surreally beautiful imagery. At times it made me laugh out loud.' Sheila Mackay

Sent i sin karriere begynder kunstneren G at male på hovedet og høster en længe ventet anerkendelse. Et helt andet sted, i Paris, bliver en kvinde angrebet af en fremmed på gaden. Overfaldsmanden, som er en kvinde, stikker af, men ikke før hun har vendt sig om for at betragte sit offer, som en kunstner, der træder væk fra sit lærred."Parade" er en grænsesøgende roman, som udvider vores forståelse for, hvad litteratur kan og bør. Det er historien om G, en kunstner hvis liv rummer mange liv – men også om en mors død og de efterladte børn, som skal forholde sig til hendes arv: de historier hun fortalte, rollerne hun tildelte dem, måderne hvorpå hun tilbageholdt sin kærlighed. Hendes død kan blive en frihed, men hvilken?"Parade" er en vidtfavnende og knivskarp roman fra en af vor tids mest kompromisløse og velskrivende forfattere, når det gælder relationer, kunst og det moderne liv.

"Midway through his life, the artist G 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. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries. 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. Parade is a novel that demolishes the conventions of storytelling. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot to tell the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives. Rachel Cusk is a writer and visionary like no other, who turns language upside down to show us our world as it really is."--

The piece of marble is no more a painting than nature itself is a painting, yet like a painting it speaks for itself: it is complete. It is separated from the process of its own becoming and can stand apart. It is also a narrative of sorts, a story of time, though one with neither protagonist nor author - a very impartial kind of witness, this [. ] piece of marble, that is being given an opportunity to testify. - Rachel Cusk, Marble in MetamorphosisIn her essay of the same name, Marble in Metamorphosis, Rachel Cusk explores the meaning of marble in different cultures. On a visit to a marble-bearing Greek island in the Aegean Sea, she considers its enduring nature, itself brought about after a period of great pressure. Marble has long been used to display political power and wealth. It also betrays vanity and corruption. Dictators built their palaces from marble which outlasted their rule and now disappear gradually into the ground, literally sinking beneath the weight of their own ambition. Marble decorates modern homes as a covetable and expensive form of interior design, commercialised and democratised, mined on an industrial scale. In reflecting on the deep relationship between marble and human culture, Marble in Metamorphosis examines the social and historical function of the material throughout time, the fate of monuments through history and the tension between classicism and realism in art and architecture. Chris Kontos's photography explores two landscapes marked by marble and its uses: the island of Tinos, with its centuries-old 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. Rachel Cusk is the author of the Outline trilogy, the memoirs A Life's Work and Aftermath, and several other works of fiction and non-fiction. She has won the Whitbread first novel prize and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, the Folio Prize and the Goldsmith's Prize. She is a Guggenheim fellow and lives in Paris. Chris Kontos is a photographer and founder of Kennedy Magazine, a publication about culture, music, cinema, photography and menswear. Nadine Monem is a Canadian writer of memoir and theory, and a lecturer in creative writing at Central Saint Martins. She is the founder of independent artists' book publisher, common-editions. Molonglo publications support a better understanding of the built environment by reaffirming the value of unconventional approaches and opening up discussions about urbanism to include a wider range of perspectives. Molonglo works across Australia, the UK and Greece in property development and investment, research and publishing.