ISBN |
9781787704251 (paperback) |
Name |
Ferrante, Elena author. |
Uniform title |
Margini e il dettato. English |
Title |
In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. |
Published |
London : Europa Editions, 2022. |
©2022 |
Description |
111 pages ; 21 cm. |
Notes |
Original Italian title: I margini e il dettato. |
Contents |
Pain and pen -- Aquamarine -- Histories, I -- Dante's rib. |
Summary |
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist, Elena Ferrante, as 'an oracle among authors'. Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of 'bad language' and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann and many others. Here is a subtle yet candid book by 'one of the great novelists of our time' about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins. |
Language note |
Translated from the Italian. |
Subjects |
Ferrante, Elena |
Ferrante, Elene -- Themes, motives |
Reading |
Authorship |
Women authors |
Genre |
Essays |
Other Names |
Goldstein, Ann translator. |
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