Abstract

Paola Cantù, Katie Ebner-Landy and Giulia Oskian discuss Rachel Cusk’s Trilogy (Outline, 2014; Transit, 2016; Kudos, 2018). Cantù reads the characters of Cusk’s trilogy as embodied arguments: they are individuated by the way they argumentatively construct their stories rather than by their names, social roles or interactions with other characters. Ebner-Landy analyses how the reconsideration of three central aspects like plot, character and imagination in Cusk’s trilogy provides a borader philosophical argument about fiction’s engagement with the moral. Lastly, Oskian focuses on the «space of freedom» existing within life’s and Cusk’s trilogy complexity and ambivalence