Elena Ferrante's fiction reviewed in The New Yorker
James Wood has written a lengthy and glowing review of Elena Ferrante's fiction in this week's New Yorker, exploring the depth and resilience of Ferrante's female protagonists. Wood touches on each of Ferrante's four books of fiction published by Europa Editions: THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, TROUBLING LOVE, THE LOST DAUGHTER, and her most recent, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, which he describes as a "beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal."
"Elena Ferrante, or 'Elena Ferrante,' is one of Italy’s best-known least-known contemporary writers," he begins. "She is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels, the most celebrated of which is THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, published in Italy in 2002. Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate."
Ferrante's "intensely, violently personal novels," Wood writes, "seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader."
Read the rest of James Wood's review online, or look for The New Yorker on newsstands today.
"Elena Ferrante, or 'Elena Ferrante,' is one of Italy’s best-known least-known contemporary writers," he begins. "She is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels, the most celebrated of which is THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, published in Italy in 2002. Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate."
Ferrante's "intensely, violently personal novels," Wood writes, "seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader."
Read the rest of James Wood's review online, or look for The New Yorker on newsstands today.