Outline

A writer arrives in hot Athens to teach a creative writing course. As she meets strangers, old friends, or students, she listens to their various stories, and the outlines of their lives gradually emerge before her. In captivating monologues, age-old themes such as love, jealousy, hatred, and the nature of creation parade, while the narrator' s own fate, desires, and ambitions remain only sketched. British writer Rachel Cusk has created a completely innovative and captivating literary form in her loose novel trilogy, of which The Outline is the first part, making her considered one of the most important English-language writers of the last decade.