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‘Troubling Love’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
While the third of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, didn’t quite live up to the excellence of My Brilliant Friend and The Story of a New Name, I’m still looking...
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‘The Story of the Lost Child’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
If you were looking for a figure to spearhead Women in Translation Month, a contemporary female writer whose work has appeal in English, you could do worse than opt for the elusive and enigmatic Elena...
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‘Frantumaglia’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
Most people would be aware that the pseudonymous Elena Ferrante isn’t one to enjoy the limelight, but that hasn’t stopped them from trying to find out more about the mysterious Italian writer (with...
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‘The Lost Daughter’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
In my recent post on Elena Ferrante’s Frantumaglia (a collection of the Italian writer’s interviews and letters), I touched on the importance of one of her lesser-known works. Her third novel can be a...
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‘The Beach at Night’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
As promised in my recent post on Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, it’s time to focus a little more on the role of the doll in the novel. However, that means reluctantly vacating the blogging chair...
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‘Incidental Inventions’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
After an exhausting, if exhilarating, trip to Iran, and with a rather confronting encounter in Mexico ahead of us, now seems like a good time to take the second of my planned breaks in this year’s...
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‘Elena Ferrante’s Key Words’ by Tiziana de Rogatis (Review)
Given that I’ve finished off just about everything Elena Ferrante has had translated into English, both fiction and non-fiction (including the short essays I covered a few days back), you’d be forgiven...
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‘The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism’ by Sarah...
A recent post saw me make my way through an in-depth, academic look at the work of Elena Ferrante, but (as you’d hopefully know if you’re a regular reader) there’s more than one way to approach...
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‘The Lying Life of Adults’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
Whenever a favourite writer brings out a new book, there’s an inevitable sense of both exhilaration and dread: exhilaration from the hope of enjoying another great story, and the dread of discovering...
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‘In the Margins’ by Elena Ferrante (Review)
Having read a number of books both by and on the mysterious Elena Ferrante, I’m always intrigued when something new appears, and today sees the release (in Australia, at least) of the latest of her...
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