![]() There are stages and she is in the second to last, she thinks. ![]() Weather is barely novella-length and opens: “In the morning, the one who is mostly enlightened comes in. Six years later, Knausgård and Cusk have finished their sequences of novels autofiction is so well established that it is being attacked for its solipsism and Offill has finally sculpted another book, this time in even shorter paragraphs. It was sold as “not so much a novel as the X-ray of one”. Unlike Cusk’s inquiry into other people’s stories or Knausgård’s famously expansive recollections, though, Offill’s book was dramatically pared down to taut, tight paragraphs trapped in the present tense, each packed with quirky observation and fantastic one liners. ![]() Like Rachel Cusk’s Outline or Karl Ove Knausgård’s Boyhood, published in English in the same year, this was autofiction: a novel that blurred the boundaries with memoir. of Speculation was greeted as a new sort of writing. ![]()
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