1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002912410203316

Titolo

African diasporas in the New and Old Worlds : consciousness and imagination / edited by Geneviève Fabre and Klaus Benesch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004

ISBN

90-420-0880-6

Descrizione fisica

XXI, 358 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Cross cultures ; 69

Disciplina

896

Soggetti

Letteratura africana - Saggi

Collocazione

VIII.2.B. 34

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136650603321

Autore

Ferrante Elena

Titolo

Frantumaglia / / Elena Ferrante

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Europa Editions, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Disciplina

853/.914

Soggetti

Authors, Italian - 21st century

Women authors, Italian - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.



Nota di contenuto

Papers : 1991-2003 -- Tesserae : 2003-2007 -- Letters : 2011-2016.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 isn't 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.