Kudos cusk6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps we go to fiction for the solitary inner life of one character and her actions against the confining tenets and structures of her society (though Cusk’s trilogy manages this as well) rather than for everything surrounding her-in this case, linked and paraphrased soliloquies of secondary, even tertiary, characters upstaging and downstaging the ostensible protagonist. This has been Rachel Cusk’s technique in her last trio of novels-a trio referred to appropriately as the Outline trilogy-and it is a little puzzling that more people haven’t thought to write novels in this manner before. In introductory studio art classes students are often assigned a negative-space drawing-that is, they are asked to draw everything surrounding a figure, filling up the page, until the blank shape of the figure emerges. ![]()
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