Рейчел Каск — новинки

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defines the novel. Midway through his life, an artist 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. When a mother dies, her children confront her the stories she told; the roles she assigned to them; the ways she withheld her love. Her death is a kind of freedom. An artist…

Рейчел Каск (род. 1967) — канадско-британская писательница, автор ломающей представление о литературном каноне трилогии «Контур» и лауреат многих литературных премий. «Ковентри» — сборник журнальных статей и книжных предисловий, написанных Каск в 2009–2019 годах. Название ему дало одноименное эссе, в котором писательница размышляет об английском выражении «отправить кого-то в Ковентри» — то есть предать забвению и покрыть молчанием — и ощущаемом ей отстранении со стороны ее родителей. В сборник вошли эссе о жизни в английской глубинке, создании дома и рабочего пространства, работах Луиз Буржуа, Франсуазе Саган, «Трех сестрах» Чехова и другие.

A woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she lives. Drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision may penetrate the mystery at the centre of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence soon twists the patterns of her secluded household.

"Второе место" - первый после прогремевшей экспериментальной трилогии "Контур" роман канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1967), вдохновленный мемуарами меценатки и покровительницы искусства Мэйбл Додж Лухан "Лоренцо в Таосе" о визите Д. Г. Лоуренса в Мексику в 1920-х, продолжает линию размывания границы между художественным и документальным. Главная героиня приглашает известного художника погостить в отдаленном месте на побережье, где она живет со своей семьей. Страстно увлеченная его картинами, она думает, что видение художника сможет проникнуть в тайну, лежащую в основе ее жизни. Но с наступлением долгого и засушливого лета…

M, romancière entre deux âges, s'est isolée du monde en s'installant avec son second mari au bord d'une côte océanique spectaculaire. Sur sa propriété baignée d'une lumière splendide et entourée de marais, le couple possède une dépendance soigneusement reconvertie en résidence d'artistes. M n'a qu'un rêve : y accueillir un jour L, un peintre à la renommée mondiale, qu'elle admire. Quand il finit par accepter son invitation, M jubile. Cependant, elle déchante vite car L n'arrive pas seul - une ravissante jeune femme est à son bras. Entre-temps, la fille de M et son compagnon ont également débarqué. Les trois couples doivent alors cohabiter dans ce cadre certes enchanteur, mais qui va devenir le théâtre de multiples tensions.

Новая книга Рейчел Каск, обладательницы множества литературных премий, завершает ломающую литературный канон трилогию, начатую романами «Контур» и «Транзит». Каск исследует природу семьи и искусства, справедливости, любви и страдания. Ее героиня Фэй приезжает в бурно меняющуюся Европу, где остро обсуждаются вопросы личной и политической идентичности. Сталкиваясь с ритуалами литературного мира, она обнаруживает, что среди разнящихся представлений о публичном поведении творческой личности не остается места для истории реального человека. В людях, с которыми общается Фэй, ей видится напряжение между истиной и публичным образом — трещина, которая концентрирует в себе огромную драматическую силу по мере того, как «Kudos» движется к красивой и глубокой кульминации.

В романе «Транзит» Рейчел Каск глубже погружается в темы, впервые затронутые в снискавшем признание «Контуре», и предлагает читателю глубокие и трогательные размышления о детстве и судьбе, ценности страдания, моральных проблемах личной ответственности и тайне перемен. Во второй книге своей лаконичной и вместе с тем эпической трилогии Каск описывает глубокие жизненные переживания, трудности на пороге серьезных изменений. Она с тревожащей сдержанностью и честностью улавливает стремление одновременно жить и бежать от жизни, а также мучительную двойственность, пробуждающую наше желание чувствовать себя реальными.

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. 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 in the intersecting spaces of our internal and external worlds.

With its examination of the possibility that art can both save and destroy us, Rachel Cusk's Second Place is deeply affirming of the human soul, while grappling with its darkest demons.

Роман современной канадско-британской писательницы Рейчел Каск (род. 1968), собравший множество премий, состоит из десяти встреч и разговоров. Нестерпимо жарким летом в Афинах главная героиня, известная романистка, читает курс creative writing. Ее новыми знакомыми и собеседниками становятся соседи, студенты, преподаватели, которые охотно говорят о себе — делятся своими убеждениями, мечтами, фантазиями, тревогами и сожалениями. На фоне их историй словно бы по контрасту вырисовывается портрет повествовательницы — женщины, которая учится жить с сознанием большой потери. «Контур» — первый роман трилогии, изменившей представления об этой традиционной литературной форме и значительно расширившей границы современной литературы. Впервые на русском.

Stella Benson sets off for Hilltop, a tiny Sussex village housing a family that is somewhat larger than life. Her hopes for the Maddens may be high, but her station among them, as au pair to their irascible son Martin – is undeniably low. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job and life in London for such rural ignominy? Why has she severed all contact with her parents? Why is she so reluctant to talk about her past?
The Country Life, Rachel Cusk’s third novel, is a rich and subtle story about embarrassment, awkwardness and being alone; about families, or the lack of them; and about love in some peculiar guises.

Arlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework; Solly, about to give birth to her fourth child; Maisie, struggling to accept provincial life; and Christine, the optimist and host of a dinner party where the neighbours come together.

Agnes Day – sub-editor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire – has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the most basic interactions. 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.

Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest, and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape. The Temporary paints a merciless portrait of the cut and thrust of modern romance, work and life.

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.

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and 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 and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax.

In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers.

Rachel 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 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 Elena Ferrante. Named for an essay 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.

In the wake of her family's 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.

Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and 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 and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax.

In this conclusion to her groundbreaking trilogy, Cusk unflinchingly explores the nature of family and art, justice and love, and the ultimate value of suffering. She is without question one of our most important living writers.

In 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.

In 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 endeavors 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 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.