The Story of the Lost Child [Lingua inglese]: Elena Ferrante: 4 - Brossura

Ferrante, Elena

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ISBN 10: 1609452860 ISBN 13: 9781609452865

Casa editrice: Europa Editions, 2015

Riassunto

Now an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)
 
Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. 

Ferrante is one of the world’s great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come.
 

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Recensione:

"Her four-novel Neapolitan story is an epic masterpiece, a Künstlerroman of sustained passion and fury... Ferrante is a subtle subversive; the domestic, in her brilliant books, is a time bomb that ticks too loudly to ignore." --TIME's 100 Most Influential People

"I say this with more confidence than I have felt during 15 years of book reviewing: the Neapolitan novels are extraordinary." --The Sunday Times

"The Story of the Lost Child does not offer a comfortable end to the series, but it confirms Ferrante once again as one of contemporary fiction's most compelling voices." --The Telegraph

"From a literary perspective, Ms Ferrante's approach is masterly. She uses the melodramatic tropes of soap opera to tell a cracking good story, all the while smuggling in piercing observations, like a file baked in a cake." --The Economist

"...the Neapolitan quartet is not just a triumph of psychological insight, social observation or storytelling magic. It is the first work worthy of the Nobel prize to have come out of Italy for many decades." --The Observer

"Perhaps her quartet should be seen as one of the first great works of post-authorial literature." --The Atlantic

"Ferrante's prose is compellingly accurate at the molecular level of emotion where love and friendship shade into jealousy, manipulation and Schadenfreude, but it's this narrative organisation that fascinates." --The Spectator

"The dark heart of friendship has rarely been anatomised in more pitiless detail." --The Evening Standard

"Written in direct and insistent prose, Ferrante's novel is full of drama: fighting, blood, screaming and political corruption are all par for the course. But it is Elena's extraordinary plumbing of identity that ensures that this book - and its predecessors - leave such an indelible impression." --The Daily Mail

"Ferrante's writing seems to say something that hasn't been said before - it isn't easy to specify what this is - in a way so compelling its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain sleep. It would be enough to have books in which we recognise the truth of women's lives in all its darkness, but the Neapolitan quartet also has an almost deranging narrative pleasure, delivered in a style that's more of an admission that the author cares too much about the truth to bother with style." --London Review of Books

"A portrait of the dynamic of a friendship has mutated into a weightier, more uncanny exploration of the antipathy of love, of our compulsion to create one another, over and over again." --The Guardian

"No other writer, as far as I can see, has ever truly exploited this rich and difficult subject to such a degree as Ferrante. And no other writer has come as deliciously close to fully understanding and bringing to life what for young girls is the formative relationship of our lives." --Open Democracy

"If you only read four books this year, then make it these." --Stylist

"Ferrante's raw, thrillingly unmediated depictions feel alarmingly unique... You shouldn''t read this book if you have yet to read Ferrante. But read her you must." --The Metro

"It only takes a few chapters to be hooked by the story of Elena, the hyper-intelligent and observant writer who narrates the books, and her childhood friend Lila, equally intelligent but possessed of a natural wildness." --The Express

"Intense, intimate and full of enraged emotional analysis, there's a marvellous sense of urgency and drama as each crisis unfolds." -- The Express

"Part social tapestry, part feminist Bildungsroman, this tetralogy shines above all because of its vibrant, unflinching study of friendship." --Financial Times

"In her celebrated Neapolitan novels, Ferrante creates an enduring portrait of a 'splendid and shadowy' female friendship." --BBC Culture's 10 Books to Read in September

"Once again, Ferrante has produced a novel that compels you to keep reading, helped along by the many short chapters, the strong plotting and the lengthy, comma-laden sentences which reflect the frantic activity, sweeping the reader along." --Tony's Reading List

"For those who have read all her books, the Neapolitan novels can resemble a magic trick: watch the invisible author (Ferrante's determination to remain hidden is by now notorious) crack open one of her small, dark, violent stories, and out comes a sprawling, teeming world reminiscent of a nineteenth-century novel, a span of six decades within which ten families collide against the sociopolitical panorama of post-war Italy." --Times Literary Supplement

"The fourth volume of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet brings her ambitious project to a triumphant, satisfying, baffling and unsettling conclusion, coming full circle with an epilogue called "Restitution". But we find no such thing. Nothing is restored: we battle on, through old age, to the end. There is no peace, no reconciliation, no end to the power struggles and convulsions of sex and politics. These are volcanic novels." --Margaret Drabble in New Statesman

"[W]hat Ferrante has achieved is a perfect marriage of immense storytelling with chillingly effective literary artistry." --The Independent

"Elena's fury also brings to mind how often women get rape threats for writing about sex or race or anything potentially contentious on the internet, in the way she is reduced to her sexuality alone when she tries to enter the world of ideas - a male sphere. It is no surprise these books resonate so deeply." --Broadly

"It is Lila, angry wild child grown into doomed beauty and self-destructive seer, a factory worker, later a computer expert, and eventually a bereaved mother, who steers this narrative. Her experiences resonate in the way Jean Rhys's characters claw at the heart." --Irish Times

"The Neapolitan Novels, taken together as one long epic that stretches from childhood to old age, are so smart about the darker currents of female friendships, the discrepancies between sexual desire and sexual politics, the high cost of a class migration like Elena's, and the ultimate 'velocity with which life [is] consumed.'" --NPR's Fresh Air

"Covering childhood, sex, motherhood, dreams and betrayals, they're a saga of feminism, friendship and political upheaval, set against the changing face of Italy." --The Irish Mail

L'autore:

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of a Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the “Neapolitan quartet” (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Severio Costanzo premiered in 2018.
Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. Her translations for Europa Editions include novels by Amara Lakhous, Alessandro Piperno, and Elena Ferrante's bestselling My Brilliant Friend. She lives in New York.

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• Editore: Europa Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1609452860
• ISBN 13: 9781609452865
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 473