Tag: autobiography
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The afterlife in Rachel Cusk’s ‘Parade’
Rachel Cusk’s *Parade* (2024) intertwines stories of a painter named ‘G.’ and various women confronting life’s adversities. The novel’s fragmented structure reflects on themes of identity and gender. It coincidentally parallels Maurice Blanchot’s *The Instant of My Death*. Both works explore ‘death-in-life’—one of Cusk’s narrators grapples with her split self, while Blanchot’s protagonist experiences a…