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Overview: Fiction merges with oral history in The Outline Trilogy, which begins with OUTLINE and follows a British writer named Faye as she goes about her daily life and encounters a series of friends and strangers.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics Outline
#1 Outline
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.
#2 Transit
In the wake of a family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, and practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. 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 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 precise, short, and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. 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.
#3 Kudos
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal & political identity are rising to the surface & the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss & renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth & representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound & beautiful climax.
In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family & art, justice & love, & the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers.
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