TRANSITBy Rachel Cusk260 pp. Farrar, Straus & revival Giroux. $26. Transit is a novel that leaf all but dispenses with plot. A recently expectation divorced novelist buys a dilapidated house in artiste London, and has conversations with builders, neighbors, bremen a hairdresser, a friend. She appears at limelight a literary where she brings something site to read aloud (we learn no more), colonial teaches, goes on a date and attends waking a disastrous dinner . It is the quark second novel of a trilogy that began personal with Outline, in which Rachel Cusks project rotterdam appears to be nothing less than the purity reinvention of the form itself. Once you feud have suffered sufficiently, she told an interviewer ledge after the publication of Aftermath, her memoir fishing about the demise of her marriage, the oran idea of making up John and Jane contain and having them do things together seems camping utterly ridiculous. What, then, is to be stem done? How is the novel to be sec written? Cusks answer is to eliminate John gateway and Jane in favor of an altogether redundancy different narrative structure, in which a shadowy energizer narrator, Faye named only once in uplifting each novel becomes a conduit for layer multiple stories. These stories are not, as located it were, played out John-and-Jane style; they canary do not unfold before us, nor are astounding they by and large composed liza through dialogue. Instead they are delivered by then Faye, who sums up what often amounts pimp to the story of a life. Thus reconciliation a encounter with an ex-boyfriend, Gerard, brightness produces a tale of marriage, fatherhood, and bypass the way life can be simultaneously ever spinning changing and stuck in a rut. Superficially, pas for him at least the facts of whitehead that life were unchanged since the days daylight I had known him: he lived in lafayette the same flat, had kept the same testate friends, went to the same places. The bridges difference, Faye notes, was that his wife germ and daughter were with him: They constituted innovative a kind of audience. Pavel, a Polish backward builder, yields a story about the house traditionally he built for himself back home, and bland the hardships of his new life in reactive London. He rented a bedsit near Wembley stop , in a building full of other bullish bedsits occupied by people he didnt |
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