Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: BookmarkedAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 9 July 2024
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Brilliantly addressing issues such as class struggle, female friendship, womens autonomy, and literary creation itself, Ferrantes hyperrealist, intense storytelling is a saga of a highly specific place and history, yet somehow also transcends them, resonating on profoundly personal levels with readers of every background. Gina Frangello grew up in poverty in inner-city Chicago two decades after Ferrantes most famous characters, Lenu and Lila grew up in Naples. Despite these geographic and cultural differences, Frangello felt that Ferrante was writing about my youth, my life, my relationships, my struggles. In the latest volume in the Bookmarked series, Gina Frangello contemplates Ferrantes Neapolitan novels through the lens of memoir, literary criticism, and issues of authorial identity and gender. Should who Ferrante is matter? And more importantly, what is it about Lenu and Lilas story that taps into such universal truths that makes readers feel that Ferrante is writing specifically to them?
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