Rachel Cusk

En su extraordinaria nueva novela, Rachel Cusk vuelve a sorprender al lector y a ampliar los límites de lo que la ficción es capaz de hacer. Hacia la mitad de su vida, el artista G empieza a pintarlo todo al reves; con el tiempo, acaba dibujando tambien a su mujer cabeza abajo, la retrata poco agraciada. Sus cuadros consiguen un exito enorme. En Paris, una mujer ataca a otra en la calle. La atacante huye, pero no sin antes darse la vuelta para contemplar a su victima, como un pintor alejandose unos pasos del lienzo. A los veintidos años, la pintora G deja su casa para empezar una nueva vida en otro pais, lejos de sus padres. Sus cuadros suscitan la desaprobacion del hombre con el que mas adelante acaba casandose. Cuando una mujer muere, sus hijos se enfrentan a su legado: las historias que conto, el papel que les asigno a cada uno de ellos, las formas en las que los privo de su amor. Su muerte es una especie de liberacion. Desfile es una novela que desafia las convenciones de la narrativa, un libro que emerge mas alla de los limites de la identidad, los personajes y la trama para contar la historia de G, un artista cuya vida contiene muchas vidas. En su esperada nueva obra, Rachel Cusk, una autora visionaria, nos descubre una nueva manera de mirar. Premio Goldsmiths Cusk tiene esa capacidad, unica de los grandes interpretes en cualquier forma de arte, de mantenerte extasiado desde el momento en el que hace acto de presencia. Dwight Garner (The New York Times) Desfile logra una proeza maravillosa, descarnada e inquietante. Kate Kellaway (The Observer) La obra mas lograda de Cusk. Una novela filosofica de proporciones que no se encuentran a menudo en la ficcion contemporanea (...). Cusk sigue siendo la novelista mas dotada, de mas talento y mas arriesgada en lengua inglesa. D. W. White (Chicago Review of Books) Desfile demuestra ser obra del mismo genio de la trilogia A contraluz y Segunda casa, una de las novelistas mas rigurosas en activo hoy en dia. Jessica Ferri (Los Angeles Times)

Rachel Cusk relata en estas páginas sus primeras experiencias como madre y reflexiona con desacostumbrada franqueza sobre lo que supone esta etapa: un adiós a la libertad, al sueño y al tiempo, un viaje a las raices del amor y una esforzada leccion de humildad. La autora analiza brillantemente cuestiones esenciales relativas al embarazo y la maternidad, desde las ambivalencias y los sentimientos contradictorios que desarrollan las madres hasta las trampas que encierra el discurso mayoritario en torno a ese periodo, pasando tambien por la infantilizacion social de las embarazadas y las madres primerizas o la soledad del puerperio. Divertido, conmovedor y brutalmente sincero, Un trabajo para toda la vida es sin duda uno de los mas brillantes libros sobre la maternidad que se han escrito en lo que va de siglo. Su publicacion en 2001 suscito tanta admiracion como indignacion, e incluso un famoso columnista llego a solicitar que los servicios sociales se hicieran cargo de las hijas de la autora. Mas de veinte años despues se traduce por primera vez al español esta obra pionera que sigue sorprendiendo por su extraordinaria lucidez.Mas de veinte años despues, esta obra pionera sigue generando debate, orprendiendo por su extraordinaria lucidez y es ya un referente imprescindible del genero. Las madres normalmente se sienten obligadas a decir: Quiero a mis hijos pero. Es en el pero donde Cusk tiene la valentia de poner el acento. Un trabajo para toda la vida nos habla de lo tierno y lo dificil que es ser madre. Deborah Levy

«Mi marido y yo nos separamos recientemente y, en cuestión de unas semanas, la vida que habíamos construido juntos se desarmó, como un puzle convertido en un montón de piezas con los bordes recortado

Tras una dolorosa ruptura, una escritora se muda a Londres con sus dos hijas. El derrumbe ha sido el catalizador de varias transiciones –personales, morales, artísticas, prácticas– y ahora intenta co

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA work of stunning beauty, deep insight and great originality.Monica Ali, New York TimesTremendous from its opening sentence.Tessa Hadley, GuardianA work of cut-glass brilliance.Financial TimesIn the wake of her familys collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The 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. 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.

One of the most astoundingly original and necessary books Ive ever read.GuardianA landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.ObserverA perfect synthesis of form and content. Deborah LevyA woman on a plane listens to the stranger in the seat next to hers telling her the story of his life: his work, his marriage, and the harrowing night he has just spent burying the family dog. That woman is Faye, who is on her way to Europe to promote the book she has just published. Once she reaches her destination, the conversations she has with the people she meets - about art, about family, about politics, about love, about sorrow and joy, about justice and injustice - include the most far-reaching questions human beings ask. These conversations, the last of them on the phone with her son, rise dramatically and majestically to a beautiful conclusion. Following the novels Outline and Transit, Kudos completes Rachel Cusks trilogy with overwhelming power.

Con la excusa de narrar su estancia familiar de tres meses en la Toscana, la escritora inglesa Rachel Cusk nos ofrece la crónica de un viaje interior que pone en tela de juicio su formación e incluso su misma identidad. En medio de la campiña, el arte, la gente y la cocina de la region, Cusk teje un relato intimo sobre su propia evolucion sentimental. Con el virtuosismo estilistico, la perspicacia y la desnuda inteligencia de sus novelas, Cusk consigue renovar el estricto genero de la literatura de viajes.

From award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk comes this absorbing story of the harmony and discord of family life. Thomas Bradshaw has left his job to look after his eight-year-old daughter, and finds himself enjoying his pursuit of a more artistic way of life- to the amazement of his intellectual wife, who has returned to full-time employment. A typically sharp and insghtful novel from a truly unique voice.

In the winter of 2009 Rachel Cusk s marriage of ten years came to an end Candid and revelatory Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version o

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?The Country Life, Rachel Cusks third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness and being alone

Rachel Cusk s controversial funny and moving account of her first few years of motherhood

Agnes Day - suburbanite and failure extraordinaire - is unwell. Terminally middle class, incurably romantic and chronically confused by the adult world, Agnes discovers that between biology and ideology lie disconcerting gaps that make recovery unlikely. But life can be impersonated.

From the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.Praise for the Outline trilogy:'A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.'Observer'Precise and haunting ... Unforgettable.'Jenny Offill'Achieves a kind of formal perfection ... masterly.'Sally Rooney'A work of great stunning beauty, deep insight, and great originality.'Monica AliA 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 novel about writing and talking, 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.A woman arrives in Athens in the height of the summer to teach a writing course. Once there, 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 voices begins to weave a complex human tapestry: the experience of loss, the nature of family life, the difficulty of intimacy and the mystery of creativity itself.

A l'hivern del 2009, el matrimoni de deu anys de Rachel Cusk es va acabar. La vida tal com ella la coneixia va desaparèixer, «com un trencaclosques que hagués quedat reduït a una pila de peces escant

'An extraordinary piece of writing stunningly bold, original and humane.'Joanna Kavenna, Daily TelegraphA Guardian / New Statesman / Observer / Spectator Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths PrizeIn the wake of 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, practical as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living 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 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 towards 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.