Rachel Cusk

Taiteilija G alkaa elämänsä keskivaiheilla maalata kuviaan ylösalaisin. Eräänä päivänä mies maalaa myös vaimonsa siten - ylösalaisin, rumana. Maalauksista tulee menestys. Pariisissa nainen joutuu tuntemattoman hyökkäyksen kohteeksi kadulla. Hyökkääjä pakenee, mutta kääntyy tarkastelemaan uhriaan, kuin taiteilija, joka katselee teostaan etäämpää. Parikymppinen taiteilija - hänkin nimeltään G - lähtee kotoa ja muuttaa toiseen maahan päästäkseen mahdollisimman kauas vanhempiensa paheksunnasta. Naisen maalaukset vetävät puoleensa miestä, joka paheksuu niitä ja jonka kanssa nainen myöhemmin menee naimisiin. Kun eräs nainen kuolee, hänen lapsensa jakavat perinnön: tarinat, joita äiti kertoi, roolit, joihin äiti heidät oli määrännyt, tavat, joilla äiti tukahdutti rakkautensa. Hänen kuolemansa on eräänlaista vapautta. Kulkue on taiteesta, luomisesta ja sukupuolesta kertova romaani, joka purkaa konventioita ja haastaa lukijansa ylittämällä identiteetin ja tarinankerronnan rajoja.

From the critically-acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth -- and a blazing renovation of the form. A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She's a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said. The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M's life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths-about the very experience of living-might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? Is M to play a character in the book, or is it the writer who is acting the role of M? In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere. She shows us that the real value of life might lie not in beauty but in ugliness; in having a self that has survived the violence of the world. Life of M is a beautiful piece of music, audible in a world of noise and spectacle. 'Cusk is a writer of soaring intelligence.' Megan Nolan, New Statesman '[Cusk] is a disciple of the truth, and she helps us to see.' Lucy Jones, Independent 'Roll up, wave a flag and join the crowds to watch Rachel Cusk continue her relentless march through life.' Irish Times

A little while ago, I told the actor M that I was thinking of writing her autobiography. She liked the idea. She’s a good sport. Would you just make it up? she said. The film star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has been like that since she was a child. With such fame, her life has the appearance of freedom: people are instantly obliging, spaces are altered to accommodate her, time can be rearranged. M may live in the same places as real people. She may meet her friends or collect her children from school or walk her dogs as they do. But it seems the rules of reality have melted away. Now, a writer has decided to pay close attention to M’s life, in the hope of understanding who she really is. It is hard not to feel ugly next to M, hard not to feel insignificant. But what truths—about the very experience of living—might this proximity allow the writer to briefly capture? Is M to play a character in the book, or is it the writer who is acting the role of M? In this astonishing, explosive novel, Rachel Cusk hunts for the nature of truth without ever swerving away into self-deceptions. She investigates who we are, and pretend to be, at this late stage of modern life when we are hypnotized, more and more effectively, by the images we see everywhere. She shows us that the real value of life might lie not in beauty but in ugliness; in having a self that has survived the violence of the world. Life of M is a beautiful piece of music, audible in a world of noise and spectacle.

A modern Greek classic “written in an ageless prose that instantly strikes the reader as the work of a master.” (Rachel Cusk, from the foreword) First published in 1961, The Way to Colonos reworks three plays by Sophocles in a modern-day setting, probing their characters with savage intimacy. Antigone, wheeling her father onto the ferry to Colonos, is a stylish woman in her thirties, disgusted by her father’s self-absorption, guilt, and evasions. A suburban Electra dreams of a bloody confrontation with her mother that may never come to pass. The myth of Philoctetes, the castaway soldier, is reframed as a story of shifting allegiances in a guerrilla war that divided Greece after World War II. As Rachel Cusk writes in her foreword to this new edition, the first in sixty years, Cicellis was a woman before her time, whose work—written in English, her second language—offers “shocking insight into the secret lives of young women” and is only now “free to reach readers with an appetite for female artistic authority, who wish to see the world through sharp fresh eyes.”

Winner of the Goldsmiths PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year (So Far) by The New Yorker and Vulture From Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, comes this startling, exhilarating novel that once again expands the notion of what fiction can be and do. 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.

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 man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

"…inget mindre än ett mästerverk." GP"Är det stor litteratur? Ja, tveklöst. Är det krävande? Ja, men väl värt att ta sig igenom, eftersom behållningen är enorm." Borås TidningMitt i livet börjar en konstnär att måla bilder som är upp och ner. En del bilder föreställer hans fru i ett ofördelaktigt ljus. Tavlorna blir en stor succé. Så inleds Parad, som i fyra sammanlänkade berättelser visar upp en rad människoöden som alla befinner sig i påtaglig förvandling. Genomgående möter vi konstnärer – alla med initialen G – som av olika skäl måste vända ut och in på vedertagna sanningar om identitet, familj och kön. Med mångbottnade Parad fortsätter Rachel Cusk, en av vår tids mest betydande författare, att undersöka hur en historia kan berättas och hur våra liv formas av de historier vi skapar om oss själva.

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. Denne bog er oversat af Birgitte Steffen Nielsen

Parade er en roman som bryter med forestillingene våre om hvordan en historie kan fortelles. Grensene for identitet, karakter og plot overskrides, og språket snus om på - for å vise oss verden slik den virkelig er. I hver av bokas fire deler opptrer en kunstner kalt G. I første del er G midtveis i livet da han begynner å male opp ned. Han maler også kona opp ned, og i tillegg gjør han henne stygg. Bildene blir en suksess. En kvinne blir angrepet på gata i Paris av en ukjent gjerningsperson. Før den kvinnelige angriperen stikker fra åstedet, snur hun seg og betrakter offeret, slik en kunstner tar et skritt tilbake for å betrakte kunstverket sitt. Hendelsen blir skjellsettende for den overfalte kvinnen. Rachel Cusk er en språkkunstner av de sjeldne og en av Storbritannias og vår tids mest toneangivende forfattere. Parade byr på refleksjoner rundt kunst og liv, familie og morskap og hvordan vi konstruerer våre liv. Cusk vant den prestisjetunge Goldsmith Prize for Parade.

A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.

WINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE'A brilliant, stark and unsettling feat.' Observer'Thoughtful and true ... Cusk is a disciple of the truth and she helps us to see.' Independent'Cusk's most formidable, radical and compelling novel yet.' The ConversationA 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 man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.

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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 raíces del amor y una esforzada lección 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 también por la infantilización 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 más brillantes libros sobre la maternidad que se han escrito en lo que va de siglo. Su publicación en 2001 suscitó tanta admiración como indignación, e incluso un famoso columnista llegó a solicitar que los servicios sociales se hicieran cargo de las hijas de la autora. Más de veinte años después se traduce por primera vez al español esta obra pionera que sigue sorprendiendo por su extraordinaria lucidez. Más de veinte años después, esta obra pionera sigue generando debate, orprendiendo por su extraordinaria lucidez y es ya un referente imprescindible del género. «Las madres normalmente se sienten obligadas a decir: ? Quiero a mis hijos? pero. Es en el pero donde Cusk tiene la valentía de poner el acento. Un trabajo para toda la vida nos habla de lo tierno y lo difícil que es ser madre.» Deborah Levy

"Cusk on nerokas, tarkkanäköinen yhteiskuntakriitikko, jonka kirkkaalle proosalle vetävät vertoja vain hänen aistikkaat havaintonsa."- SlateEnsimmäisessä esseekokoelmassaan Ääriviivat- romaanitrilogiastaan tunnettu Rachel Cusk käsittelee aiheita, jotka ovat myös hänen romaanituotantonsa ytimessä: sukupuolta, perhe-elämää, oman tarinansa omistamista ja ihmisten välisen vallankäytön muotoja. Mykkäkoulun esseet sisältävät niin arkielämän havainnoista kasvavia tekstejä kuin kirjallisuuskritiikkiä ja aikalaisanalyysiä. Kirjallisuusesseissään Cusk käsittelee muun muassa D. H. Lawrencea, Françoise Sagania ja Kazuo Ishiguroa. Cusk piirtää teksteissään elegantisti yhteyksiä omien elämänkokemustensa ja laajempien kulttuuristen ilmiöiden välille. Lukija saa kokoelman parissa nauttia samasta lahjomattomasta älystä, tarkkanäköisistä havainnoista ja ajatuksen kirkkaudesta kuin Cuskin romaanienkin parissa.