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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.
Editore : Europa Editions (11 dicembre 2019)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina flessibile : 320 pagine
ISBN-10 : 1609455630
ISBN-13 : 978-1609455637
Peso articolo : 386 g
Dimensioni : 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm
Franca S. –
A scholarly page-turner
Tiziana de Rogatis is the most insightful Ferrante scholar in Italy, and this book crowns a series of intuitions she has expressed in several articles published between 2014 and 2017, even when the Ferrante Fever was far from being a well known (or a thoroughky analysed) phenomenon.De Rogatis engages with the texts in a compelling and exhaustive manner. One of the best aspects to be credited is her capacity to argue in a clear and involving style, while never neglecting to provide a rigorous textual analysis.Her chapters, far from merely reconstructing the plots with a minimum commentary (as some other critical works on Ferrante have perhaps the tendency to do), show her passion as a reader, as well as her competence as a scholar of Ferrante, whose influence over Italian culture and public discourse is still to be fully absorbed by some of the powerful Italian mainstream intellectual world.De Rogatis also convincingly explains how much resistance there still is among those Italian critics who sturdly label Ferrante as a cheap market phenomenon. Her book helps to better understand the huge denial surrounding the presence of a pervasive gender violence across our societies. Moreover, through her deep analysis of Ferrante’s women (and men), she rightfully points at the epistemic violence that has historically characterised the reception of women writers in Italy as well as in many other countries.In a way, especially as she ties in the #Metoo events with the low-level discussion over Ferrante’s ‘real’ identity, de Rogatis reveals and empowers the manifold ways in which this writer is a living and breathing example of free feminine artistry. At the same time, the Neapolitan novels here get vividly reconstructed and interwoven with Ferrante’s previous works, as in each chapter of ‘Elena Ferrante’s Key Words’ one is able to see a fragment of a much larger mosaic of female experiences that have spoken to millions of readers all over the world.Â
Ronald J. Florek –
If you want to knw the ins and outs of elena Ferrante’s works read this.
Stanley Palombo –
Ferrante’s Key Words is a curious book. Ostensibly celebrating Ferrante’s beautiful depictionof life in the poor neighborhoods of Naples, the thesis of the author is really quite pernicious.It is that people who pursue education and culture are all phonies. Elena Greco, the narrator ofthe Neapolitan Quartet, is rebuked for trying to leave the neighborhood and wanting to continuein school. Elena’s occasional feeling that she is an impostor among the intellectual is taken to beevidence that she really is an impostor, and that she would have been better off staying at home in the slums,like Lila, whose parents won’t let her go on to middle school. Elena’s heroic effort to better her life istreated as a betrayal of her origins. The fact that Lila survives in the neighborhood only because of herexceptional talents is completely overlooked.For the author, only misery is authentic. All achievement is selling out. What an attitude toward life!