"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me."
With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by editors at the Guardian, turning the writing process into a kind of prolonged interlocution; the subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the adaptation of her novels to film and TV. As she said in her final column: "I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that-if I have the will and the time-I'd like to develop within real narrative mechanisms."
Here, then, are the seeds of possible future novels, the ruminations of an internationally beloved author, and the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times). Gathered together for the first time and accompanied by an entirely new introduction written by Elena Ferrante and by Andrea Ucini's intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this is a must for all Ferrante fans.
"This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me."
With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she penned short pieces, the subjects of which were suggested by editors at the Guardian, turning the writing process into a kind of prolonged interlocution; the subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the adaptation of her novels to film and TV. As she said in her final column: "I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that-if I have the will and the time-I'd like to develop within real narrative mechanisms."
Here, then, are the seeds of possible future novels, the ruminations of an internationally beloved author, and the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times). Gathered together for the first time and accompanied by an entirely new introduction written by Elena Ferrante and by Andrea Ucini's intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this is a must for all Ferrante fans.
18M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide
Elena Ferrante's Guardian columns, collected and illustrated.
Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa,
2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa,
2008), and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My
Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and
Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) which were
published by Europa Editions between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant
Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in
2018. Ferrante is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer’s
Journey (Europa, 2016), a children’s picture book illustrated by
Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016), and a collection of
personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental
Inventions (Europa, 2019). The Lost Daughter was made into a
feature film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia
Colman. Her most recent novel is The Lying Life of Adults (Europa,
2020). In the Margins, a collection of original essays on reading
and writing, was published by Europa in 2022.
Ann Goldstein is one of the most accomplished translators from the
Italian working today. Best known for her translations of Elena
Ferrante’s oeuvre, she has also brought to Anglo-Saxon readers
novels by Primo Levi, Pierpaolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco and
other classic and contemporary Italian writers.
“Elena Ferrante’s novels have a driving and unconventional
narrative power that has gripped readers across a wide cultural
range.”
*The Guardian*
“Elena Ferrante is the literary child of Jane Austen and John
Steinbeck.”
*The Times*
“Ferrante’s writing seems to say something that hasn’t been said
before—it isn’t easy to specify what this is—in a way so compelling
its readers forget where they are, abandon friends and disdain
sleep.”
*London Review of Books*
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