A glorious visceral mystery The Times While on her daily walk with her dog in the. Over the past six years, Ottessa Moshfegh has dedicated herself so assiduously to writing about people in self-isolation you have to wonder what she knew that the rest of us didn’t. This is creativity as mental illness, as parasite. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (ebook) This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge. Magda’s story grows in Vesta’s mind like a fungus, penetrating every corner, sapping the vitality from her actual experience. In Death in Her Hands, the plots devised by novelists uncomfortably resemble the conspiracy delusions of a paranoiac. Moshfegh gives the old canard about the association between artistic genius and madness an additional twist to arrive at the notion that inventing complex stories about the intersecting lives of entirely imaginary people is itself a species of madness.

Magda, with her chain smoking, her slippery dark hair, and her grim family history, registers more vividly than Vesta, who has the unnatural, powder-scented fragility of a flower preserved under glass. The same could be said of any novelist, though, and if Vesta is less actively misanthropic than Eileen or the narrator of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, she is even more deeply wedded to an interior world that seems far more alive than the one her body moves through. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh is published by Jonathan Cape at £14.99 Related Topics Fiction books, American literature The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all. Death Becomes Her: Inside Ottessa Moshfegh's morbidly chic world Fresh off her best-selling phenomenon, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh returns with the horrifically.

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