2024-06-15
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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
Im head of programming Connor Boyle.
For this episode were bringing you a writer whose uncompromising vision has pushed her to deconstruct the literary form of novel writing multiple times over, Rachel Cusk.
This intelligence squared event was in partnership with Faber members and recorded recently at Londons Union Chapel.
Rachel Cusk is the award winning author behind both fiction and non fiction titles that range from novels such as Saving Agnes and Arlington park to the ambitious collection of works that form the outline trilogy.
The latter, made up of outline, transit and kudos, have seen her pursue ever more experimental avenues and storytelling while still being loved by readers.
She is the writer who once famously said in an interview, I don't think character exists anymore, and her new book, Parade, leans into that experimental nature.
Further still, Parade follows a carousel of lives across unnamed but evocative locations across Europe, including an artist who gains fame by painting his wife upside down.
It also spurns traditional literary devices, such as even giving its narrator a name.
If it sounds unusual, that's because it is.
Kusk is celebrated as a singular voice in literature.
Lots to discuss then.