Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante 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.
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Elena Ferrante
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists.
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Elena Ferrante
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.
Here is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time” about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.
Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante
Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend, The Days of Abandonment) tells a story about mothers and daughters and the complicated knot of lies, emotions, and shared history than binds them.
Following her mother's untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the chaotic, suffocating streets of her native Naples in search of the truth about her family. A series of mysterious telephone calls leads her to compelling and disturbing revelations about her mother's final days.
As the New York Times wrote about this novel, "the raging, torrential voice of the author is something rare." Troubling Love is indeed a rare look into the abiding preoccupations and obsessions that bring millions of readers all over the world to her fiction.
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
A national bestseller for almost an entire year, The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published. It is the gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband with two young children to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal.
The Lost Daughter
Elena Ferrante
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home to live with their father in Toronto. Enjoying an unexpected sense of liberty, she heads to the Ionian coast for a vacation.
But she soon finds herself intrigued by Nina, a young mother on the beach, eventually striking up a conversation with her. After Nina confides a dark secret, one seemingly trivial occurrence leads to events that could destroy Nina’s family.
The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was uttered under his breath, in the apartment that my parents, newly married, had bought in Rione Alto, at the top of Via San Giacomo dei Capri. Everything—the spaces of Naples, the blue light of a very cold February, those words—remained fixed. But I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story, while in fact I am nothing, nothing of my own, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion: only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even the one who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.”
The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4)
Elena Ferrante
"Nothing quite like this has ever been published before," proclaimed The Guardian about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a lifelong friendship between two women with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up — a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.
The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (The Neapolitan Novels, #3)
Elena Ferrante
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels, #2)
Elena Ferrante
In 2012, Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker's James Wood described as "large, captivating, amiably peopled ... a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal," Ferrante proves herself to be one of Italy's most accomplished storytellers. She writes vividly about a specific neighborhood of Naples from the late-1950s through to the current day and about two remarkable young women who are very much the products of that place and time. Yet in doing so she has created a world in which readers will recognize themselves and has drawn a marvelously nuanced portrait of friendship.
In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family, freedom, commitment, and above all friendship: these are signs under which both women live out this phase in their stories. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, and the pressure to excel is at times too much for Elena. Yet the two young women share a complex and evolving bond that is central to their emotional lives and is a source of strength in the face of life's challenges. In these Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante, the acclaimed author of The Days of Abandonment, gives readers a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging.
La vita bugiarda degli adulti
Elena Ferrante
Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta malvagia adolescente. Ma le cose stanno proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto, dopo quello felice dell’infanzia, oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s’è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, ora precipitando ora inerpicandosi, disorientata dal fatto che, su o giù, la città pare senza risposta e senza scampo.
Incidental Inventions
Elena Ferrante
“This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.”
With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by editors at the Guardian, turning the writing process into a kind of prolonged interlocution; the subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the adaptation of her novels to film and TV. As she said in her final column: “I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that—if I have the will and the time—I’d like to develop within real narrative mechanisms.”
Here, then, are the seeds of possible future novels, the ruminations of an internationally beloved author, and the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (the New York Times). Gathered together for the first time in a beautiful gift edition and accompanied by an entirely new introduction written by Elena Ferrante and Andrea Ucini’s intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this is a must for all Ferrante fans.
История нового имени
Elena Ferrante
Вторая часть "Неаполитанского квартета", "История нового имени", продолжение истории Лену Греко и Лилы Черулло. Подруги взрослеют, их жизненные пути неумолимо расходятся. Они по-прежнему стремятся вырваться из убогости и нищеты неаполитанских окраин, но каждая выбирает свою дорогу. Импульсивная Лила становится синьорой Карраччи; богатство и новое имя заставляют ее отречься от той, кем она была когда-то, оставить в прошлом девочку с незаурядным умом, подававшую большие надежды. Лену продолжает учиться, мучительно доказывая самой себе, что может добиться успеха даже без своей гениальной подруги.
Душные задворки Неаполя, блестящая на солнце Искья, университетская Пиза – в разных декорациях жизнь еще не раз испытает дружбу Лилы и Лену на прочность, а они будут снова и снова убеждаться, что нить, связавшую их в детстве, не в силах разорвать ни одна из них.
Genialna przyjaciółka (Genialna przyjaciółka, #1)
Elena Ferrante
Sześćdziesięcioletnia Elena Greco dowiaduje się, że Lila, jej przyjaciółka z czasów dzieciństwa, zniknęła bez śladu. Elena przypuszcza, że przyjaciółka wprowadziła w życie swoje odwieczne pragnienie zniknięcia ze świata, w którym żyła, usunąwszy przedtem wszelkie ślady swego istnienia. Chcąc znaleźć wytłumaczenie dla tego gestu, Elena postanawia opowiedzieć niezwykłą historię ich przyjaźni. I tu rozpoczyna się podróż w przeszłość, która przeniesie czytelnika w lata pięćdziesiąte ubiegłego wieku, na przedmieścia Neapolu.
The Beach at Night
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante returns to a story that animated the novel she considers to be a turning point in her development as a a writer: "The Lost Daughter." But this time the tale takes the form of a children's fable told from the point of view of the lost (stolen!) doll, Celina. Celina is having a terrible night, one full of jealousy for the new kitten, Minu, feelings of abandonment and sadness, misadventures at the hands of the beach attendant, and dark dreams. But she will be happily found by Mati, her child, once the sun rises. Accompanied by the oneiric illustrations of Mara Cerri, "The Beach at Night" is a story for all of Ferrante's many ardent fans."
L'Amie prodigieuse (L'Amie prodigieuse, #1)
Elena Ferrante
«Je ne suis pas nostalgique de notre enfance : elle était pleine de violence. C’était la vie, un point c’est tout : et nous grandissions avec l'obligation de la rendre difficile aux autres avant que les autres ne nous la rendent difficile.»
Elena et Lila vivent dans un quartier pauvre de Naples à la fin des années cinquante. Bien qu’elles soient douées pour les études, ce n’est pas la voie qui leur est promise. Lila abandonne l’école pour travailler dans l’échoppe de cordonnier de son père. Elena, soutenue par son institutrice, ira au collège puis au lycée. Les chemins des deux amies se croisent et s’éloignent, avec pour toile de fond une Naples sombre, en ébullition. L’amie prodigieuse, Le nouveau nom et Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste sont les trois premiers tomes de la saga d’Elena Ferrante, qui se conclut avec L’enfant perdue.
Historia zaginionej dziewczynki (Genialna przyjaciółka, #4)
Elena Ferrante
The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante
Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of a sixty-year friendship between the brilliant and bookish Elena and the fiery, rebellious Lila with unmatched honesty and brilliance.
Die Geschichte der getrennten Wege (Neapolitanische Saga #3)
Elena Ferrante
Es sind die turbulenten siebziger Jahre und die beiden inzwischen erwachsene Frauen. Lila ist Mutter geworden und hat sich befreit und alles hingeworfen – den Wohlstand, ihre Ehe, ihren neuen Namen – und arbeitet unter entwürdigenden Bedingungen in einer Fabrik. Elena hat ihr altes neapolitanisches Viertel hinter sich gelassen, das Studium beendet und ihren ersten Roman veröffentlicht. Als sie in eine angesehene norditalienische Familie einheiratet und ihrerseits ein Kind bekommt, hält sie ihren gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg für vollendet. Doch schon bald muss sie feststellen, dass sie ständig an Grenzen gerät.
Ganze Welten trennen die Freundinnen, doch gerade in diesen schwierigen Jahren sind sie füreinander da, die Nähe, die sie verbindet, scheint unverbrüchlich. Würde da nur nicht die langjährige Konkurrenz um einen bestimmten Mann immer deutlicher zutage treten.
Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens (Neapolitanische Saga, #2)
Elena Ferrante
Lila und Elena sind sechzehn Jahre alt, und sie sind verzweifelt. Lila hat noch am Tage ihrer Hochzeit erfahren, dass ihr Mann sie hintergeht – er macht Geschäfte mit den allseits verhassten Solara-Brüdern, den lokalen Camorristi. Für Lila, arm geboren und durch die Ehe schlagartig zu Geld und Ansehen gekommen, brechen leidvolle Zeiten an. Elena hingegen verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in einen jungen Studenten, doch der scheint nur mit ihren Gefühlen zu spielen. Sie ist eine regelrechte Vorzeigeschülerin geworden, muss aber feststellen, dass das, was sie sich mühsam erarbeitet hat, in ihrer neapolitanischen Welt kaum etwas gilt.
Trotz all dieser Widrigkeiten beharren Lila und Elena immer weiter darauf, ihr Leben selbst zu bestimmen, auch wenn der Preis, den sie dafür zahlen müssen, bisweilen brutal ist. Woran die beiden jungen Frauen sich festhalten, ist ihre Freundschaft. Nur: Können sie einander wirklich vertrauen?
Elena Ferrante hat einen Weltbestseller geschrieben. Ein Gipfelwerk der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Und einen Roman, den man erschüttert und begeistert liest!
Meine geniale Freundin (L'amica geniale #1)
Elena Ferrante
Sie könnten unterschiedlicher kaum sein und sind doch unzertrennlich, Lila und Elena, schon als junge Mädchen beste Freundinnen. Und sie werden es ihr ganzes Leben lang bleiben, über sechs Jahrzehnte hinweg, bis die eine spurlos verschwindet und die andere auf alles Gemeinsame zurückblickt, um hinter das Rätsel dieses Verschwindens zu kommen.
Im Neapel der fünfziger Jahre wachsen sie auf, in einem armen, überbordenden, volkstümlichen Viertel, derbes Fluchen auf den Straßen, Familien, die sich seit Generationen befehden, das Silvesterfeuerwerk artet in eine Schießerei aus. Hier gehen sie in die Schule, die unangepasste, draufgängerische Schustertochter Lila und die schüchterne, beflissene Elena, Tochter eines Pförtners, beide darum wetteifernd, besser zu sein als die andere. Bis Lilas Vater seine noch junge Tochter zwingt, dauerhaft in der Schusterei mitzuarbeiten, und Elena mit dem bohrenden Verdacht zurückbleibt, eine Gelegenheit zu nutzen, die eigentlich ihrer Freundin zugestanden hätte.
Ihre Wege trennen sich, die eine geht fort und studiert und wird Schriftstellerin, die andere wird Neapel nie verlassen, und trotzdem bleiben Elena und Lila sich nahe, sie begleiten einander durch erste Liebesaffären, Ehen, die Erfahrung von Mutterschaft, durch Jahre der Arbeit und Episoden politischer Bewusstwerdung, zwei eigensinnige, unnachgiebige Frauen, die sich nicht zuletzt gegen die Zumutungen einer brutalen, von Männern beherrschten Welt behaupten müssen.
Sie bleiben einander nahe, aber es ist stets eine zwiespältige Nähe: aus Befremden und Zuneigung, aus Rivalität und Innigkeit, aus Missgunst und etwas, das größer und stiller ist als Lieben. Liegt hier das Geheimnis von Lilas Verschwinden?
Elena Ferrante hat ein literarisches Meisterwerk von unermesslicher Strahlkraft geschrieben, ein von hinreißenden Figuren bevölkertes Sittengemälde und ein zupackend aufrichtiges Epos – über die rettende und zerstörerische, die weltverändernde Kraft einer Freundschaft, die ein ganzes langes Leben währt.
La amiga estupenda (Dos amigas, #1)
Elena Ferrante
Con La amiga estupenda, Elena Ferrante inaugura una tetralogia deslumbrante que tiene como telón de fondo la ciudad de Nápoles a mediados del siglo pasado y como protagonistas a Lenù y Lila, dos jóvenes mujeres que están aprendiendo a gobernar su vida en un entorno donde la astucia, antes que la inteligencia, es el ingrediente de todas las salsas.
La relación a menudo tempestuosa entre Lila y Lenù viene acompañada de un coro de voces que dan cuerpo a su historia y nos muestran la realidad de un barrio pobre, habitado por gente humilde que acata sin rechistar la ley del más fuerte, pero La amiga estupenda está lejos del realismo social: lo que aquí tenemos son unos personajes de carne y hueso, que nos intrigan y nos deslumbran por la fuerza y la urgencia de sus emociones.
Por primera vez Ferrante aborda una narración muy amplia, poniendo en escena un verdadero tableau vivant donde no hay espacio para el tópico: todo es vida y todo respira al hilo de la mejor literatura.
Storia del nuovo cognome (L'amica geniale, #2)
Elena Ferrante
El amor molesto
Elena Ferrante
La niña perdida
Elena Ferrante
Las deudas del cuerpo
Elena Ferrante
Un mal nombre (La amiga estupenda, #2)
Elena Ferrante
Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta (L'amica geniale, #3)
Elena Ferrante
Alternate cover edition of ISBN-13: 9788866324119, ISBN-10/ASIN: 8866324116
Elena e Lila, le due amiche la cui storia i lettori hanno imparato a conoscere attraverso L’amica geniale e Storia del nuovo cognome, sono diventate donne. Lo sono diventate molto presto: Lila si è sposata a sedici anni, ha un figlio piccolo, ha lasciato il marito e l’agiatezza, lavora come operaia in condizioni durissime; Elena è andata via dal rione, ha studiato alla Normale di Pisa e ha pubblicato un romanzo di successo che le ha aperto le porte di un mondo benestante e colto. Ambedue hanno provato a forzare le barriere che le volevano chiuse in un destino di miseria, ignoranza e sottomissione. Ora navigano, con i ritmi travolgenti a cui Elena Ferrante ci ha abituati, nel grande mare aperto degli anni Settanta, uno scenario di speranze e incertezze, di tensioni e sfide fino ad allora impensabili, sempre unite da un legame fortissimo, ambivalente, a volte sotterraneo a volte riemergente in esplosioni violente o in incontri che aprono prospettive inattese.
História do novo sobrenome: Juventude (Napolitana, #2)
Elena Ferrante
A amiga genial (Napolitana, #1)
Elena Ferrante
La vida mentirosa de los adultos
Elena Ferrante
«Dos años antes de irse de casa, mi padre le dijo a mi madre que yo era muy fea». Así empieza esta novela extraordinaria sobre el descubrimiento de la mentira, el amor y el sexo, narrada por la inolvidable voz de Giovanna, una joven empeñada en conocer a su tía Vittoria, incomprensiblemente borrada de las conversaciones y álbumes de fotografías. Con ello desencadenará sin saberlo el desmoronamiento de su familia intelectual y burguesa, perfecta solo en apariencia.
Maestra absoluta de la intriga, Ferrante siembra la trama de sorpresas y anuda prodigiosamente la misteriosa historia familiar y amorosa en torno a una pulsera que pasa de mano en mano. Nadie como ellapara describir la complejidad de las pasiones humanas y todas las intermitencias del pensamiento y el corazón.
A Filha Perdida
Elena Ferrante
Invențiile ocazionale
Elena Ferrante
Frantumaglia. Viața și scrisul meu
Elena Ferrante
Iubire amară
Elena Ferrante
Povestea fetiței pierdute
Elena Ferrante
Povestea noului nume
Elena Ferrante
Cei care pleacă și cei ce rămân
Elena Ferrante
Prietena mea genială (L'amica geniale #1)
Elena Ferrante
Viața mincinoasă a adulților
Elena Ferrante
História do Novo Nome (L'amica geniale #2)
Elena Ferrante
L'amore molesto
Elena Ferrante
Crónicas do Mal de Amor
Elena Ferrante
Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste (L'amie prodigieuse #3)
Elena Ferrante
Après L’amie prodigieuse et Le nouveau nom, Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste est la suite de la formidable saga dans laquelle Elena Ferrante raconte cinquante ans d’histoire italienne et d’amitié entre ses deux héroïnes, Elena et Lila. Pour Elena, comme pour l’Italie, une période de grands bouleversements s’ouvre. Nous sommes à la fin des années soixante, les événements de 1968 s’annoncent, les mouvements féministes et protestataires s’organisent, et Elena, diplômée de l’École normale de Pise et entourée d’universitaires, est au premier rang. Même si les choix de Lila sont radicalement différents, les deux jeunes femmes sont toujours aussi proches, une relation faite d’amour et de haine, telles deux sœurs qui se ressembleraient trop. Et, une nouvelle fois, les circonstances vont les rapprocher, puis les éloigner, au cours de cette tumultueuse traversée des années soixante-dix. Celle qui fuit et celle qui reste n’a rien à envier à ses deux prédécesseurs. À la dimension historique et intime s’ajoute même un volet politique, puisque les dix années que couvre le roman sont cruciales pour l’Italie, un pays en transformation, en marche vers la modernité.
Le Nouveau Nom (L'Amie prodigieuse, #2)
Elena Ferrante
Naples, années soixante. Le soir de son mariage, Lila comprend que son mari Stefano l’a trahie en s’associant aux frères Solara, les camorristes qui règnent sur le quartier et qu’elle déteste depuis son plus jeune âge. Pour Lila Cerullo, née pauvre et devenue riche en épousant l’épicier, c’est le début d’une période trouble : elle méprise son époux, refuse qu’il la touche, mais est obligée de céder. Elle travaille désormais dans la nouvelle boutique de sa belle-famille, tandis que Stefano inaugure un magasin de chaussures de la marque Cerullo en partenariat avec les Solara. De son côté, son amie Elena Greco, la narratrice, poursuit ses études au lycée et est éperdument amoureuse de Nino Sarratore, qu’elle connaît depuis l’enfance et qui fréquente à présent l’université. Quand l’été arrive, les deux amies partent pour Ischia avec la mère et la belle-sœur de Lila, car l’air de la mer doit l’aider à prendre des forces afin de donner un fils à Stefano. La famille Sarratore est également en vacances à Ischia et bientôt Lila et Elena revoient Nino. Le nouveau nom est la suite de L’amie prodigieuse, qui évoque l’enfance et l’adolescence de Lila et Elena. Avec force et justesse, Elena Ferrante y poursuit sa reconstitution d’un monde, Naples et l’Italie, et d’une époque, des années cinquante à nos jours, donnant naissance à une saga romanesque au souffle unique.
Fiica ascunsă
Elena Ferrante
Senzațional este că, pe măsură ce urmăreşte cu empatie extremele personajelor sale, stilul lui Ferrante răzbate dincolo de orice limită, nerăbdător parcă să ducă fiecare gând până la concluzia sa cea mai radicală şi, înapoi, până la punctul cel mai radical în care a prins contur. Lucrul acesta este evident în curajul cu care naratoarele femei vorbesc despre copii şi maternitate. - James Wood, The New Yorker
O meditație profundă şi emoționantă asupra condiției de femeie şi mamă.
Leda, o profesoară de literatură engleză, divorțată de multă vreme, rămâne pentru prima oară singură după ce fetele sale, de-acum mari, pleacă în Canada, să locuiască împreună cu tatăl lor.
Convinsă că va fi copleşită de singurătate şi de un sentiment de inutilitate, Leda găseşte în schimb o libertate la care nu îndrăznise să se gândească. Această libertate însă, se transformă într-o necruțătoare introspecție provocată de întâlnirea cu o familie gălăgioasă într-un sătuc din sudul Italiei, unde Leda pleacă într-o mică vacanță. Astfel, povestea unei femei care se redescoperă pe sine devine povestea unei confruntări nemiloase cu trecutul.
Historia ucieczki (Genialna przyjaciółka, #3)
Elena Ferrante
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
L'amica geniale (L'amica geniale #1)
Elena Ferrante
Il romanzo comincia seguendo le due protagoniste bambine, e poi adolescenti, tra le quinte di un rione miserabile della periferia napoletana, tra una folla di personaggi minori accompagnati lungo il loro percorso con attenta assiduità. L'autrice scava nella natura complessa dell'amicizia tra due bambine, tra due ragazzine, tra due donne, seguendo la loro crescita individuale, il modo di influenzarsi reciprocamente, i buoni e i cattivi sentimenti che nutrono nei decenni un rapporto vero, robusto. Narra poi gli effetti dei cambiamenti che investono il rione, Napoli, l'Italia, in più di un cinquantennio, trasformando le amiche e il loro legame. E tutto ciò precipita nella pagina con l'andamento delle grandi narrazioni popolari, dense e insieme veloci, profonde e lievi, rovesciando di continuo situazioni, svelando fondi segreti dei personaggi, sommando evento a evento senza tregua, ma con la profondità e la potenza di voce a cui l'autrice ci ha abituati. Si tratta di quel genere di libro che non finisce. O, per dire meglio, l'autrice porta compiutamente a termine in questo primo romanzo la narrazione dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza di Lila e di Elena, ma ci lascia sulla soglia di nuovi grandi mutamenti che stanno per sconvolgere le loro vite e il loro intensissimo rapporto.
En los márgenes
Elena Ferrante
La maravilla de descubrir la lectura y la escritura desde la infancia, los recuerdos de las primeras páginas escritas, sus olores y lugares, y luego los grandes hallazgos, desde los nombres canónicos de la literatura universal hasta las autoras que la han iluminado, impregnan estas lecciones magistrales que ha impartido Elena Ferrante invitada por la Cátedra Umberto Eco de la Universidad de Bolonia.
En este recorrido histórico y personal por la inspiración y su vocación de escritora, la autora más enigmática de la actualidad desvela también sus consejos sobre la creación de personajes y la trama. Desde Shakespeare hasta Gertrude Stein, pasando por las obras de Diderot, Jane Austen o Virginia Woolf, y culminando con Dante y su Beatrice, Ferrante entrelaza lecturas y reflexiones con su propia obra y su vida, sobre las que por primera vez se confiesa en una nueva intimidad con sus lectores.
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