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| Original Title: | Storia di chi fugge e di chi resta |
| ISBN: | 1609452232 (ISBN13: 9781609452230) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=290 |
| Series: | L'amica geniale #3 |
| Characters: | Raffaella Cerullo (Lila), Gigliola Spagnuolo, Elena Greco (Lenuccia), Rino Cerullo, Stefano Carracci, Pinuccia Caracci, Alfonso Caracci, Pasquale Peluso, Carmela Peluso, Ada Cappuccio, Antonio Cappuccio, Nino Sarratore, Enzo Scanno, Marcello Solara, Michele Solara, Pietro Airota |
| Setting: | Naples(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015) |
Elena Ferrante
Paperback | Pages: 418 pages Rating: 4.3 | 77966 Users | 4891 Reviews
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| Title | : | Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (L'amica geniale #3) |
| Author | : | Elena Ferrante |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 418 pages |
| Published | : | September 2nd 2014 by Europa Editions (first published October 30th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Novels. Audiobook. Literary Fiction |
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Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante's fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors--Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few--and critics--James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her abusive husband and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which have opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have pushed against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance, and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.
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Originally published on my blog, ShouldaCouldaWoulda Books.Hello and welcome back to the third edition of Kelly Freaks Out Over Elena Ferrante Theater!I hope that you didnt come in here with the expectation that this was going to be the time that I got disillusioned with Elena, did you? Because that seems unlikely to happen. Ever. At least not with these Neapolitan novels. These things are like crack brownie ice cream pot (insert more adjectives that indicate addiction and deliciousness here)How did things got this messy and dirtier?
I am completely and utterly spellbound, bewitched. Each novel in the series is getting me more hooked. Again, where do I start? I'll just write a few thoughts.It's the 70s. Elena is married to her university boyfriend, who's now a Professor and a very dull individual. Ferrante is brilliant at conveying the loneliness of domesticity. The conflict between loving your family and wanting to be there for them and the mind-numbness of the constant chores. Even the sex is a chore. Elena is disappointed
"Ferrantes singularity is to make a glory of introspection and turn it into theatre. Theres a dark ardour present in her writing, and a thrilling physicality to her metaphors, boldly translated by Ann Goldstein. She speaks of the anxious pleasure of violence, of desire feeling like a drop of rain in a spiderweb. Her charting of the rivalries and sheer inscrutability of female friendship is raw. This is high-stakes, subversive literature."Catherine Taylor for The TelegraphA theatre of
I am barreling through Ferrante books and loving them. In book 3, Elena and Lila are now in their 20s and 30s and still living parallel and occasionally intersecting lives with mariage, lovers, kids, and lots of self-questioning. There is not one particular aspect or scene that comes to mind, but the overall impression of a very Proustian inspired look at the varying fates of these two women and how much they are changed (and unchanged) by the society that is changing around them. The secondary
Writer Charles Finch says, "I read Elena Ferrantes Neapolitan trilogy this year. I read it twice, actually. It made me want to quit writing." This is because he says he realized that this is what truly naturalistic writing is and presumably he doesn't have what she has. He is envious of her psychologicaly inward style and admires her for not foregoring plot in the process. In that, she is, according to Finch, even better than Philip Roth. Whoa. This kicks the latest Ferrante accolades up a silly
I finished this today, the day Elena Ferrantes identity has reportedly been revealed. I confess I feel a bit guilty now because while reading this there were several times I found myself wishing I knew how much was fiction and how much autobiography. I wondered this because it struck me that when Lila disappears from the pages so too does the electric charge Ferrantes writing has. Ferrante writes well about Elenas initiation into university life, the Milan literati, Italian political unrest,
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