![]() ![]() Ever since seeing his 'objective and compassionless' look in a self-portrait at an exhibition in Paris, M has felt compelled to meet (and sort of possess) him, but when he eventually turns up to stay, not alone but with a horribly perfect young girlfriend in tow, she knows that the whole thing is already out of her control: 'It wasn't at all how I'd planned it!' She will never get to know L at all, and he will never 'see' her, something that has become inexplicably essential to her whole sense of reality. ![]() Second Place is a strange and fascinating story of a battle of wills, in which the narrator (only identified as 'M') goes back over the events and violent feelings aroused by a world-famous artist ('L') coming to stay on her property on the Norfolk coast in the retreat-studio of the title. But this latest fiction, Second Place, re-sets the dial yet again. Two sequels followed in the same mode, Kudos and Transit, and all three books are now studied on university courses for their ground-breaking innovations. She stopped writing autobiography when it ‘seemed to be making people angry’ and adopted a new technique for her novel Outline in 2014 in which the narrator doesn't really narrate at all, but listens to other people's stories. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪchel Cusk is always moving forward. ![]()
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