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![]() "It seemed to inspire a lot of creative bad reviews. "It seemed to me like the book was kind of an occasion for people to be creative in criticizing it," she said. ![]() ![]() Moshfegh, who generally doesn't read reviews of her work, was piqued by the response. "For all its technical mastery, there remains something deeply juvenile about Moshfegh's fiction," wrote Andrea Long Chu in a particularly brutal takedown from Vulture. "There is no enlightenment in these pages," wrote NPR's Maureen Corrigan. "It's too violent to be funny, and too silly to be meant as anything else," read one New York Times review. And a stranger could hold my hand and it could feel like. "My niece can hold my hand and it feels so sweet and loving. "I'm pointing out the line between what is sensual and what is sexual," Moshfegh said. It's gross and icky and weird, but also kind of tender and sweet. The passage goes on to describe an almost sexual charge between them. Which, for her, is just a way of writing about being alive while knowing you're going to die. But the come up hasn't stopped her from digging even deeper into what's become something of a signature style – writing in beautiful detail about the gross and disgusting. A Hollywood adaptation of Relaxation is in the works currently, but first the film adaptation of her debut novel, Eileen, is set to come out. Over the course of the pandemic, her second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, about a woman who tries to drug herself into sleeping through an entire year, became a hit – particularly among the bookish on TikTok. ![]() The book is just the latest entry in Moshfegh's current rise to literary fame. It takes place in a fictional medieval European village, where violence is rampant and resources are scarce (unless you are, of course, among the ruling class). This is the nugget of the idea that would become her latest novel, Lapvona. "And I would have nightmares about the guilt of having killed someone." "But for a really long time I felt like I had killed someone," the author said in an interview. Ottessa Moshfegh has never killed anyone. Ottessa Moshfegh's new book, Lapvona, is her most gruesome and graphic work to date.Īndrew Casey/Courtesy of Penguin Random House ![]()
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