![]() ![]() Aside from these quasi-generic data points, however, we acquire few additional facts about the narrator. She is a novelist teaching a summer writing course in Greece.Ĭusk, who has written three memoirs, shares basic life details (English, novelist, mother, divorced) with her narrator, meaning this novel joins the ranks of recent novels by writers whose portrayals of the self skew the boundary between autobiography and fiction. She is the mother of more than one child. The narrator’s bio, meanwhile, remains faintly sketched. ![]() In her presence, they divulge stories about their wives and husbands and mistresses, their parents and children and careers. The narrator of Rachel Cusk’s lethally intelligent novel, “Outline,” is a cipher who inspires other people to confess. I countered that there were participatory ways of saying nothing that I experienced our friend’s silence as encouragement to display, for his appreciation and scrutiny, the more typically hidden parts of myself. He just stands there and doesn’t speak.” He felt our friend did not pull his weight in social situations. ![]() ![]() I was out to dinner recently with a man who observed of a mutual friend: “He’s a cipher. ![]()
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