Rachel Cusk

Standard Name: Cusk, Rachel

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Ali Smith
In The Guardian's Books of the Year roundup, Sylvia Brownrigg referred to Other Stories as one of the year's surprising treats.
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Brownrigg, Sylvia. “To Russia with love”. The Guardian, 3 Dec. 1999, p. B34.
B34
Rachel Cusk praised Virtual as distinguished in its linearity.
Cusk, Rachel. “The real and the arch: The Whole Story and Other Stories”. The Guardian, 26 Apr. 2003, p. B28.
B28
Two...
Literary responses Ali Smith
Novelist Rachel Cusk has suggested that Smith's mediation of the dark with the lightness of whimsy adds a manufactured quality to her prose. She argued, too, that Smith sets absurdity and realism in conflict (as...
Literary responses Doris Lessing
The Guardian marked the book's fiftieth anniversary in 2012 with reflections on it by women of four generations. Diana Athill (born in 1917) says she took against it on its first appearance; she found it...
Reception Jeanette Winterson
One reviewer seeing positive aspects of the novel was Rachel Cusk in The Times, who admired Winterson's blending of invention and compassion, and found the novel exciting though also linguistically infuriating. Another sympathetic reviewer,...

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Texts

Cusk, Rachel. “A Wretchedness New to History”. Times, p. 39.
Cusk, Rachel. “The real and the arch: The Whole Story and Other Stories”. The Guardian, p. B28.
Athill, Diana et al. “Who am I? Who do I want to be?”. The Guardian, Vol.
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