02785nam 2200481 450 9910136650603321(CKB)3710000000886041(MiAaPQ)EBC4781620(EXLCZ)99371000000088604120170406d2016 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFrantumaglia /Elena FerranteNew York, New York :Europa Editions,2016.1 online resource (245 pages)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.1-60945-292-5 1-60945-304-2 Papers : 1991-2003 -- Tesserae : 2003-2007 -- Letters : 2011-2016."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.Authors, Italian21st centuryInterviewsAuthors, Italian21st centuryCorrespondenceWomen authors, Italian21st centuryInterviewsWomen authors, Italian21st centuryCorrespondenceAuthors, ItalianAuthors, ItalianWomen authors, ItalianWomen authors, Italian853/.914Ferrante Elena547437Goldstein Ann1949-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136650603321Frantumaglia1512396UNINA