
There is a controlling quality that becomes a little claustrophobic, that sense of a person seeing without being seen.

I’d like to read more Cusk, but cannot imagine she can continue to explore the reticent narrator in the same way. I’ve thought whether to write anything much about my reading of Cusk, but have little that would improve on the pieces linked above. On my first reading of the last in the series, Kudos, I drifted off about a third of the way through, but I am glad I returned, this time reading the trilogy end to end over a couple of days.

There’s some insightful writing around about Rachel Cusk’s trilogy, including the transcript of an interview with Alexandra Schwartz.
