I agree. I have liked Rachel Cusk in the past, but this trilogy (and yes, I did read all three of them) left me more admiring rather than truly engaged. There was a coldness about it - which was noticeably NOT the case with her more straightforwardly memoir-like books Aftermath and A Life's Work.
Oh, and I am a bit of a Dazai Osamu obsessive and this January I reread a lot of his work, including No Longer Human, as well as the work of his daughter. Feel free to ignore the links below, because I do rabbit on quite a bit about them both. https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/january-in-japan-dazai-osamu/
I agree. I have liked Rachel Cusk in the past, but this trilogy (and yes, I did read all three of them) left me more admiring rather than truly engaged. There was a coldness about it - which was noticeably NOT the case with her more straightforwardly memoir-like books Aftermath and A Life's Work.
Oh, and I am a bit of a Dazai Osamu obsessive and this January I reread a lot of his work, including No Longer Human, as well as the work of his daughter. Feel free to ignore the links below, because I do rabbit on quite a bit about them both. https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2021/01/24/january-in-japan-dazai-osamu/
https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2021/01/31/january-in-japan-falling-down-the-rabbit-hole/
https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/january-in-japan-yuko-tsushimas-short-stories/
https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2021/01/26/januaryinjapan-yuko-tsushima-again/