Elena Ferrante

In the Margins

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022
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Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.

Here is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time” about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.

“Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante’s name on it.”—The Boston Globe
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Quotes

  • Táliahas quoted2 years ago
    His very obsession with the new, immediately present in his work, derived from the awareness that writing was chained to writing; that every word had its tradition; that every first language was hatching a second
  • Táliahas quoted2 years ago
    This is precisely what happens to our efforts to write: the words are ready para formar el libro, says María Guerra, and yet they won’t stay in the form, they overflow the margins, get lost in the wind.
  • Táliahas quoted2 years ago
    As soon as we try to write something, one more problem regarding the inadequacy of the writing is added to those I’ve tried to list: that not a single page, whether polished or rough, speaks our truth as women completely, in fact often doesn’t speak it at all.

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