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Parade
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize
Named 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 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.
Named 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 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.
198 pages, Hardcover
First published June 18, 2024
About the author
Rachel Cusk
60 books5,844 followersRachel Cusk was born in Canada, and spent some of her childhood in Los Angeles, before her family returned to England, in 1974, when Cusk was 8 years old. She read English at New College, Oxford.
Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.
She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'
She lives in Brighton, England.
Cusk is the Whitbread Award–winning author of two memoirs, including The Last Supper, and seven novels, including Arlington Park, Saving Agnes, The Temporary, The Country Life, and The Lucky Ones.
She has won and been shortlisted for numerous prizes: her most recent novel, Outline (2014), was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmith's Prize and the Bailey's prize, and longlisted for Canada's Giller Prize. In 2003, Rachel Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'
She lives in Brighton, England.
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August 11, 2024
4.5 ⭐
Parade je roman v eksperimentalni obliki. Take običajno berem po večkrat, tokrat že v prvo dvakrat zapored (če bi prebrala kaj o knjigi prej, bi bilo enkrat dovolj).
Delo je razdeljeno v štiri poglavja, v treh od njih potekata paralelno po dve pripovedi, ena je o umetniku_ci G (ni v vsakem delu ista oseba), druga je pisana v prvi osebi - ednine ali množine.
Glavne osebe niso dejanske osebe v romanu ampak teme, dogodki in razmišlljanja teh oseb. To so, poleg umetnosti, tako procesa, pomena v družbi kot simbolike dela, vloga žensk, materinstvo, izgube, smrt. Vključuje tudi dele avtofikcije in paralele s svojimi prejšnjimi deli - vseh teh zagotovo nisem ujela, ker je že nekaj časa, odkar sem brala Outline (Obris) trilogijo in A life's work (drugih njenih pa še nisem brala). Branje mi je bilo vseeno v užitek in ob priliki se Parade lotim ponovno.
Parade je roman v eksperimentalni obliki. Take običajno berem po večkrat, tokrat že v prvo dvakrat zapored (če bi prebrala kaj o knjigi prej, bi bilo enkrat dovolj).
Delo je razdeljeno v štiri poglavja, v treh od njih potekata paralelno po dve pripovedi, ena je o umetniku_ci G (ni v vsakem delu ista oseba), druga je pisana v prvi osebi - ednine ali množine.
Glavne osebe niso dejanske osebe v romanu ampak teme, dogodki in razmišlljanja teh oseb. To so, poleg umetnosti, tako procesa, pomena v družbi kot simbolike dela, vloga žensk, materinstvo, izgube, smrt. Vključuje tudi dele avtofikcije in paralele s svojimi prejšnjimi deli - vseh teh zagotovo nisem ujela, ker je že nekaj časa, odkar sem brala Outline (Obris) trilogijo in A life's work (drugih njenih pa še nisem brala). Branje mi je bilo vseeno v užitek in ob priliki se Parade lotim ponovno.
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