Rachel Cusk: Parade - Bilingual reading and conversation with Annette Pehnt

Since her "Outline" trilogy and the memoirs "Life's Work" and "Afterwards", Rachel Cusk has been celebrated internationally for her brilliant analyses of the geometry of human relationships and our late-modern attitude to life. Born in Canada in 1967 and raised in the USA and Great Britain, the Guggenheim Fellow now lives in Paris. Her most recent work "Parade" (Suhrkamp, 2024, translated from the English by Eva Bonné) explores the intertwining of art and life: Suddenly G is painting upside down. His own wife, for example. He makes her ugly in the process. The paintings become a huge success. In Paris, a woman is attacked on the street by a stranger. The attacker turns to look at her victim like an artist at her canvas.

Rachel Cusk writes about violence, femininity, parenthood and reflects the family history(ies) of the narrating "we" in episodes about artists. "A captivating, sparkling text" (Frankfurter Rundschau), about which the author talks to her colleague Annette Pehnt.
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Photo: © Suhrkamp Verlag

Co-organizer: Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg

Date: 19.11.2024, 19:30
Venue: Literaturhaus, Bertoldstraße 17
Admission: 11/7 euros

Reading and discussion
Literaturhaus