I margini e il dettato

In an article written by Jhumpa Lahiri about Calvino (which a coincidentally I read just as I was writing this review) she quotes him as saying that Italian writers "always have a problem with their own language (and they live) in a state of linguistic neurosis". That is certainly true of Ferrante a Leggi tutto

I believe that the sense I have of writing — and all the struggles it involves — has to do with the satisfaction of staying beautifully within the margins and, at the same time, with the impression of loss, of waste, because of that success. In an opening Editor’s Note, it is explained that Elena Leggi tutto

Daha önce Elena Ferrante hiç okumadım, tuhaf bir direncim var kendisine karşı, bazen oluyor böyle. Ama okuyacağım, vallahi. Napoli'ye gitmeye de hazırlanırken bir yerinden tanışayım artık dedim ve bu minik kitaba gitti elim. Ferrante'nin kamuya açık ders olarak topluluk önünde okumak üzere kaleme al Leggi tutto

به عنوان یک زن فمینیست و (تقریباً) نویسنده، وظیفه‌ی خودم می‌دانم خواندن آثار زنانی را که در مورد «نوشتن» نوشته‌اند. و خوشبخت و خوشحال می‌شوم وقتی این وظیفه با خواندن یک اثر خوب، لذت‌بخش هم می‌شود. با کیمیای عزیزم پشت بازار سعدی رشت چای می‌خوردیم و در مورد کتاب‌های عزیزمان و نوشتن و نوشتن به عنوان یک Leggi tutto

کلارا* کودکی بود که راه و روش پیاده‌روی‌اش، کم و بیش به دوران کودکی عده‌ای از ما شباهت دارد. کودکی که در میانۀ راه متوقف می‌شود و خطوط بین سنگ‌فرش‌ها، او را گیج و سردرگم می‌کند. کلارا نمی‌تواند پا بر خطوط بگذارد. حاضر است لوکاس او را بغل کند و در جایی مابین خطوط فرود بیاید تا اینکه مرزهای خیالی ذهنش Leggi tutto

Sometimes I wonder if working—whether as an academic, or even as a literary critic—on Ferrante might be both a blessing and a curse? On the one hand, what a treasure trove of literary, historical, philosophical, and feminist references we find in her essays. It makes reading her and analyzing her wo Leggi tutto