Rachel cusk new novel7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() “I’m always on the move artistically,” she says, “to find what the language of our world will be. “I have found freedom is in fact truth,” she says–although she is still determining how to communicate that truth. ![]() Cusk remains hopeful that being honest about pain can lead to salvation. But Cusk wonders in Kudos whether they–like Medea, Antigone and other women of Greek tragedy–can achieve honor through that suffering. “Now what replaces it?”įaye and her friends are still trapped in archetypes: the angry feminist who fights against marriage, or the martyr who sacrifices herself to the institution. ![]() “With #MeToo, we’re witnessing an unraveling of an old morality,” Cusk says. COVENTRY by Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 pp., 27.00 Cusk is making a point about the difficulty of keeping multiple factors in mind: Just as obsessing about her lines made her. ![]() That process may begin with righteous anger, as when Faye’s friends share stories about abusive exes and question gender roles. “The private consciousness was enacted on the public stage,” says Cusk of Brexit, “including the trauma.” Cusk hints that society should rebuild its structures rather than seek liberation from them. Faye’s seatmate on a plane interprets signs lobbying voters to “leave” or “remain” as a personal comment on his own marriage. The costs of freedom also take on a political import: the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union haunts the novel, set shortly before the Brexit vote. ![]()
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