Frantumaglia. A writer's journey - Rilegato

Ferrante, Elena

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ISBN 10: 1609452925 ISBN 13: 9781609452926

Casa editrice: Europa Editions, 2016

Riassunto

Named one of The Guardian's "Best Books of 2016"

From the author of My Brilliant Friend

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 20 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 that story isn’t good enough. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse for memories, impressions, and fantasies. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work.

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Recensione:

"It is an intimate history of her progress between one book and the next; an invitation to sit at her desk and to see as she sees the work she does with words." --Times Literary Supplement

"This is a fascinating volume, as ever beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein. At times, it is as absorbing as Ferrante's extraordinary fictions and touches on troubling unconscious matter with the same visceral intensity. For those who can't wait for the next Ferrante fiction to sink into, it provides a stopgap." --The Guardian

"The book, exquisitely translated by Ann Goldstein of The New Yorker, opens a window on to the life of one of the most mysterious writers at work in Italy today." --Evening Standard

"In Frantumaglia, Ferrante asserts the most fundamental and important truth of who she is: that she is someone who will do only as she will, and nothing else. That is what is at stake for all women. And the stakes, as Ferrante knows, have never been higher." --New Republic

"In her own exceedingly quotable words, drawing on myth, theory, philosophy, and, of course, literature, the author reveals herself in her multitudes: she is kind and good-humored, self-deprecating and apologetic, flinty and unwavering... While this collection will be most enticing to those already reading Ferrante, it's also a feast for writers, lovers of literature, and creators of all kinds." --Booklist

"Rendering real women, with their fraught relationships and anger, joy, anxieties, disappointment and sadness, has always been where Ferrante is at her most authentic; where she is her most truthful. But in Frantmuaglia, her first work of non-fiction, the reader finds one of Ferrante s most convincing works of fiction: Elena Ferrante."--The Muse

"Cumulatively these fragments offer fascinating insights into Ferrante's working methods and artistic purpose."--Ruth Scurr,The Times Literary Supplement

"Her one-off pieces (many of them previously unpublished), about subjects including an adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story and how Flaubert shaped her conception of France, are thoughtful and suggest acute self-editing." --New Statesman

"The writing is as sensitive, intimate, intelligent and beautiful as any of her novels." --The Arts Desk

"On every page of Frantumaglia, Ferrante speaks as the enemy of convention, unafraid of the difficulty of discovering new feminine specificities." --LA Review of Books

"Ferrante's work is not about women or friendship or abandonment: It is, rather, about a sense of the deep-down rawness of life itself - which runs like an electrical current beneath the prose - and it is responsible for the thousands of pages of writing she has sent out into a world of readers hungry to feel alive to their own perilous condition." --The Nation

"Now, American readers hungry for every Ferrante sentence they can get will find many here in which she lowers her knife through the bread of life with the same startling force as she does in her novels." --LA Times

"Over the decades of interviews in Frantumaglia, a portrait emerges if not of the artist herself, then of Elena Ferrante's writing process and aim: to give order to the frantumaglia, however provisional, and arrive at a literary truth through story." --Hazlitt

"This extraordinary collection of frantumaglia gives us far greater insight into her novels than any speculation about her 'real' identity." --Readings

L'autore:

Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008) and the Neapolitan Quartet (Europa 2012-2015). She is also the author of a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night.

Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Story of the Lost Child, which was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York.

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• Editore: Europa Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1609452925
• ISBN 13: 9781609452926
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384