“Look at what all your equality has done for you - the men no longer respect you and can treat you like the dirt on their shoe.” As for what happens when a group of women get together, writes Cusk, “far from advancing the cause of femininity, they end up pathologising it.” An attractive television presenter confides that “the power of beauty is a useful weapon that too often women disparage or misuse…”, while another, a divorcee, says her own mother despises her for having got it so wrong. It’s what we journalists do nowadays.” Another gets angry when told his allotted time with her is up, having done nothing but posture.įemale characters voice Cusk’s ambivalence towards feminism she’s certainly no card-carrying member of the sisterhood and women in general seem to dislike her. Her acid put-downs of self–regarding journalists too busy talking about themselves to ask her questions are beautifully savage if a little overdone, but who can blame her? One journalist tells Faye all about her marriage, before concluding “I think I have everything I need … In fact, I looked up all the details before I came.
With its description of a “national fare” of pastel de nata custard tarts, the location bears a resemblance to Portugal, where Cusk attended a literary festival last May. Once again Faye is travelling, to a literary festival in southern Europe. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪnd here now is Kudos, in style closer to Outline than Transit, but with conversations that have been abstracted further still.
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