![]() ![]() Rather than trying to appeal to a broader readership through genuinely empathizing with people different from herself, Cusk takes notes that would seem intimately familiar primarily to those who are unhappily finding themselves in literary circles/publishing/academia/book reviewing. ![]() The title, in that sense, does a great job at encapsulating a work that does a larger service to the voice of the writer than it does to correcting the problem of modern fiction: writing for writers. In a conventional way nothing really happens in Rachel Cusk’s Outline. Overall, while I am very unlikely to reread this novel, I do not think it is unworthy of reading I just really hate feeling like the intended audience of what seems to be a manifesto to giving up on the idea of fiction. The other half I read in one night, to finish the book before I needed to review it. ![]() The first half of the book I read with the sensitivity Rachel Cusk seems to expect of her readers: underlining sections I felt would contain more meaning the second (or nth) time one reads them. I would identify as a quick reader, but reading Outline took me a very long time. ![]()
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