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The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins brings together the most exciting and innovative research on Ferrante's treatment of the intricacies of women's lives, relationships, struggles, and dilemmas to explore feminist theory in literature; questions of gender in twentieth-century Italy; and the psychological and material elements ...
Apr 23, 2021 · The four books are narrated by Elena (Lenù) Greco and follow her and her best friend Raffaella (Lila) Cerullo, beginning with their adolescence in Naples and following them through the divergent paths they take as adults. Ferrante weaves feminist history into the third installment, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, a revelatory title for a ...
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Sep 18, 2023 · The issue of women’s relationship to language is at the heart of Elena Ferrante’s thought and fiction. This article examines the Neapolitan tetralogy’s pursuit of a feminist tongue that would enable women to flee the ‘cage’ of the patriarchal symbolic order. First, the exchange of the dolls for Little Women will be interpreted as a ...
Notes from Elena Ferrante’s final revisions to The Story of the Lost Child.. Over the past ten years, the translation into English of Elena Ferrante’s novels—including Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter, and the first three volumes of the tetralogy known in English as the Neapolitan Novels—have won her a passionate following outside her native Italy; the ...
Jun 23, 2023 · Abstract. Italian author Elena Ferrante has been described as the “master of the unsayable”. By examining two of her novels, namely My Brilliant Friend (New York: Europa Editions, 2016) and The Lying Life of Adults (London: Europa Editions, 2020), I attempt to explore her realist methodology and depiction of female friendship as a means of creating a sense of truth-telling.
Oct 15, 2014 · For almost a decade both he and his wife have been whispered about as the real authors of Ferrante’s works, including her celebrated Neapolitan novels. But, beyond their shared roots in Naples ...
The Days of Abandonment, Neapolitan Novels. Website. elenaferrante .com. Elena Ferrante ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛːlena ferˈrante]) is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most widely known works.
