Frantumaglia
Papers
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 384 pages ; 22 cm
"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 twenty 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 it isnt good enough for publication. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse of memories, material, and stories. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work."--Dust jacket.
Contents:
Papers : 1991-2003 -- Tesserae : 2003-2007 -- Letters : 2011-2016.
Subjects:
Ferrante, Elena.
Authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Interviews.
Authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.
Women authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Interviews.
Women authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.
Ferrante, Elena.
Authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Interviews.
Authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.
Women authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Interviews.
Women authors, Italian -- 21st century -- Correspondence.
ISBN:
9781609452926
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LITERATURE Fer | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Subtitle on dust jacket: A writer's journey.
Translation of the unabridged and updated edition of: La frantumaglia. Originally published: Roma : E/o, c2003.
Translated, principally, by Ann Goldstein.
Translation of the unabridged and updated edition of: La frantumaglia. Originally published: Roma : E/o, c2003.
Translated, principally, by Ann Goldstein.