num_pages: 160
description: Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost DaughterIn 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 womens 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: English
title: In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
publisher: Europa Editions