
Elena Ferrante's Key Words
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"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent." -Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo Zhou Kan
Ferrante's four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten million readers in close to fifty countries. Her readers recount feeling "addicted" to the novels; they describe a pleasure in reading that is as rare as it is irresistible, a compulsion that leads them either to devour the books or to ration them so as to prolong the pleasure.
De Rogatis here addresses that same transnational, diverse, transversal audience. Elena Ferrante's Key Words is conceived as a lighted path made of luminous key words that synthesize the multiform aspects of Ferrante's writing and guide us through the labyrinth of her global success.
"An exceptional companion to the source material, particularly for the lit-crit crowd looking to affirm Ferrante's reinvention of the future of the novel." -Library Journal
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Born in Naples, Tiziana de Rogatis is currently an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners of Siena. Her recent work analyzes modern constructions of the feminine interpreted in an anthropological manner via the reemergence of classical myths. She has written and lectured widely on Elena Ferrante in Italy and elsewhere in Europe, Asia and the United States. She lives in Rome.
Content
- Intro
- ELENA FERRANTE'S KEY WORDS
- NOTE
- INTRODUCTION. An International Hit
- CHAPTER ONE. A Brilliant, Popular Narrative
- CHAPTER TWO. Female Friendship
- CHAPTER THREE. Smarginatura, Frantumaglia, Surveillance: Between Mothers and Daughters
- CHAPTER FOUR. Naples, the City-Labyrinth
- CHAPTER FIVE. Two Languages, Emigration, and Study
- CHAPTER SIX. Violence, Images, Disappearances
- CHAPTER SEVEN. History and Stories
- CONCLUSION. Elena Ferrante and the Power of Storytelling in the Age of Globalization
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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