Frantumaglia
Subtitle: A writer's journey
Contributors: Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781609452926
Subjects: Italian Women authors; Biography; Italian Authors
Work titles: Frantumaglia
Description: "This book invites readers into Elena Ferrantes workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four installments of My Brilliant Friend, known in English as the Neapolitan Quartet. Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, it is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. In these pages Ferrante answers many of her readers questions. She addresses her choice to stand aside and let her books live autonomous lives. She discusses her thoughts and concerns as her novels are being adapted into films. She talks about the challenge of finding concise answers to interview questions. She explains the joys and the struggles of writing, the anguish of composing a story only to discover that that story isnt good enough. She contemplates her relationship with psychoanalysis, with the cities she has lived in, with motherhood, with feminism, and with her childhood as a storehouse for memories, impressions, and fantasies. The result is a vibrant and intimate self-portrait of a writer at work,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation of: La frantumaglia.

Subtitle from dust jacket.
Table of contents: title: Papers, 1991-2003; title: Tesserae, 2003-2007; title: Letters, 2011-2016.