Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta. L'amica geniale

I finished this today, the day Elena Ferrante’s identity has reportedly been revealed. I confess I feel a bit guilty now because while reading this there were several times I found myself wishing I knew how much was fiction and how much autobiography. I wondered this because it struck me that when L Leggi tutto

و من قال ان الرحيل دوما شر و البقاء جيد للأبد؟ فدوران عجلة الزمن يسقط من في القمم للقاع و يعلي اهل القاع لسطح لم يتألفوا معه..وفي رحلة الصعود تسقط الاقنعة و يرحل من يرحل و يبقى من يتحمل و لكن تظل رحلة الهروب الكبير للنساء هي:الهروب من الانوثة؛رموزها؛معوقاتهاو اعباؤها ؛و عبر سنوات الرصاص الحرجة في تا Leggi tutto

[From Le nouveau nom] I wrote and rewrote my review of Elena Ferrante's third volume, but each version I produced seemed stupider than the last; empty words, tired formulas, a well-crafted and earnest nullity of expression. In the end, although I had promised myself I would not do so, I emailed t

”Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.” ~Lila Cerullo Mount Vesuvius simmers on the edges of Naples, a dragon in slumber, a metaphor for the rumbling, teeming city that erupts in violence without warning. The view of the volcano's hulking presence, seen through the windows of an upscale apartm Leggi tutto

Each book in the Neapolitan series has its different delights. In Volume One, My Brilliant Friend , it was childhood, education and ambition. In Volume Two, The Story of a New Name , the zombie-like mindlessness of youthful sexual awakening. Here, its wealth and poverty and the irrationality of lovers Leggi tutto

Dramatic, maybe melodramatic at times, but so gripping as the lives of these two women take hold of the reader once again with their complicated friendship. The narration by Elena is introspective, but yet when she speaks of Lila and tells her story, it feels equally as intimate. Once again I was pu Leggi tutto