Half-wild Lyra from Northern Lights was the first female character who felt real to Jane Gleeson-White. Then she met Elena Ferrante’s ‘ferocious, filthy, quicksilver’ Lila, a more complex version.
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In her new essay collection, Elena Ferrante tells the compelling story of her reading and writing life, and the battle between form and wildness.
The Netflix adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter explores motherhood as complexly as the book, but some things get lost in translation.
The White Lotus is a tense, new drama about the lives of the rich and privileged, set in a Hawaiian resort. But the protagonists are not lying around reading airport novels.
The books Goodreads users read more often than are assigned in university tend to be by women writers and to feature strong female protagonists.
How important is the identity of an author? Can a novelist ever really ‘become’ someone else?
Bob Dylan is now a literary celebrity. And next week, the Booker Prize judges will anoint another. The tag is still chiefly attached to men but women authors shouldn’t despair: fame and good writing can be uneasy bedfellows.
The unmasking of Charlotte Brontë changed the way that her books were read.
In her novels, in numerous articles and in correspondence, Elena Ferrante has chosen to depict the world from a female point of view. She has always claimed that the woman’s gaze is decisive.
The unmasking of the real author of the Neapolitan series was an act of vandalism.
Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” and her Neapolitan novel cycle “an unconditional masterpiece”. But the author herself remains an intangible figure.
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