Ever since so-called Ferrante fever struck, there’s been a cottage industry dedicated to unraveling the true identity of the pseudonymous Italian novelist. “Who is Elena Ferrante?” is a question that understandably haunts fans of the novelist and her complex rendering of her female protagonists. And yet, Ferrante…
A television adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels is currently in production, and I can already picture myself screaming, “BOOOOOOOOOO!” and throwing a bottle of Peroni at the screen when that piece of shit Nino appears for the first time. This must be what it feels like to be a George R.R. Martin fan.
The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth and final book of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, will be released next week. (SPOILER: It’s wonderful.) Vanity Fair was lucky enough to nab an interview (conducted over email) with the elusive
chanteuse
écrivaine, and the first part was published today. In it, Ferrante…
In a year so crammed with both cultural stasis and accelerated political mania that it resembled nothing else so strongly as a trash fire, there was Elena Ferrante, oasis of the terrifyingly good. The pseudonymous Italian author has made a quiet, graceful transition from cult fame to widespread obsession, and rightly:…
