But then, as he admits, all art requires subterfuge. Conversations flow naturally, with confessions so raw they appear to occur, one listener notes, “without the screen of fiction.” A journalist tells Faye that in her novels she keeps her imagination well hidden. They recount their own struggles managing career, parenting, and relationships. In Kudos, women ask her how she could remarry, knowing what she knows. The arc of Faye’s separation, divorce, and remarriage structures the three novels. While Outline is set at a weeklong creative-writing class in Greece, and Transit concerns the renovation of a run-down property in London, in Kudos Faye travels abroad to a writers’ conference to be interviewed about her latest novel. In this eagerly anticipated conclusion to her trilogy, which also includes Outline (2015) and Transit (2017), her narrator, Faye, provides the frame for stories narrated by people she meets at home and abroad. In Kudos, Rachel Cusk continues to reinvent the genre of autofiction, seamlessly merging life and art.
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