معرفی کتاب Transit اثر Rachel Cusk

Transit

Transit

5.0
1 نفر |
1 یادداشت

با انتخاب ستاره‌ها به این کتاب امتیاز دهید.

در حال خواندن

0

خوانده‌ام

1

خواهم خواند

1

ناشر
شابک
9780374278625
تعداد صفحات
260
تاریخ انتشار
1395/10/29

توضیحات

        The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.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.
      

یادداشت‌ها

          Rachel Cusk is a fucking blessing to the literary world. 

When I first read Outline, the first book of this trilogy, I was absolutely transfixed by her prose and the subjects she'd decided to write about. And I devoured the life story of the random people that the main character met along the way. 

As a result I went into Transit, craving the same format with maybe some alterations.
Which was not the case at all. The second book of the trilogy is the same in the way that our main character finds herself the subject of people's thoughts. But this time something felt different about them and the stories they were telling. Instead of telling their beliefs and out-takes on different everyday subjects, they were just simply telling the story behind a random snap shot of their lives, namely meeting one's spouse, immigrating to a new country, spending an evening in an art gallery and so on.

And this time, while hearing their stories, unlike the previous book Faye occasionally shared her thoughts, sometimes with the characters and sometimes just with us. And consequently we got to know about her. She's not just a sponge that absorbs people's thoughts and muses anymore. She has a complex personality and I'm all ears to hear more about it. 

This trilogy is one my favourite things that I've ever read. I get so drawn in the books when I read them that I completely lose track of my surroundings and I literally have to come up for air every once in a while. I can't wait to read the next and final book and have another breathtakingly stunning literally experience.
        

0