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

  • Zeynebhas quoted3 hours ago
    If, a lowly, abject woman, I

    can carry within so sublime a flame,

    why shouldn’t I draw out at least

    a little of its style and vein to show the world?

    If love has lit a new and unheard-of spark

    to raise me up to a place I’d never gained,

    why, with equally uncommon skill,

    can’t it make my pen and pain the same?

    And if the force of sheer nature’s not

    enough, why then some miracle that often

    conquers, breaks, and ruptures every limit.

    How this could be, I can’t exactly say;

    I know only that my great destiny’s

    impressed upon my heart a sweet new style.
  • Zeynebhas quoted3 hours ago
    Rime of Gaspara Stampa
  • Zeynebhas quoted3 hours ago
    Italo Svevo’s greatest book, Zeno’s Conscience

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