Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey PDF

Ferrante ist das Pseudonym einer italienischen Schriftstellerin, die mehrere Romane geschrieben hat, von denen ihr neapolitanisches Quartett das berühmteste ist. Das neapolitanische Quartett erzählt die Geschichte zweier intelligenter Mädchen, die 1944 in Neapel geboren wurden und versuchen, sich in einem angeheizten Milieu eine Zukunft zu schaffen von Gewalt geprägt und von patriarchalischer Kultur dominiert. Das Quartett besteht aus My Amazing Girlfriend (2012). Eine neue Namensgeschichte (2013). Die Flüchtlinge und die Überreste (2014). und The Tale of the Lost Child (2015), das für den Strega-Preis nominiert wurde.

Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey pdf von Elena Ferrante

This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these pages Ferrante answers many of her readers’ questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives. She discusses her thoughts and concerns as her novels are being adapted into films. She talks about the challenge of finding concise answers to interview questions. She explains the joys and the struggles of writing, the anguish of composing a story only to discover that that story isn’t good enough. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse for memories, impressions, and fantasies. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work.