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Elena Ferrante's Key Words

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Elena Ferrante's Key Words
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tiziana de Rogatis
Translated by Will Schutt
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 133
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9781609455637
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Europa Editions
Imprint Europa Editions
Publication Date 3 December 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

Ferrante's four-volume novel cycle known in English as the Neapolitan quartet has become a global success, with over ten million readers in close to fifty countries. Her readers recount feeling 'addicted' to the novels: they describe a pleasure in reading that is as rare as it is irresistible, a compulsion that leads them either to devour the books or to ration them so as to prolong the pleasure. De Rogatis here addresses that same transnational, diverse, transversal audience. Elena Ferrante's Key Words is conceived as a lighted path made of luminous key words that synthesise the multiform aspects of Ferrante's writing and guide us through the labyrinth of her global success. 'I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent."- Elena Ferarante, for San Lian Sheng Huo Zhou Kan

Author Biography

Tiziana de Rogatis (Naples) is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University for Foreigners of Siena. Her scholarship has focused on Montale, European culture between the 1930s and 1940s, and modern feminine constructions. She has written and lectured widely on Elena Ferrante in Italy, England, Holland, and China.

Reviews

Praise for Elena Ferrante's Kew Words "A richly layered study that will appeal to the well-versed fan."--Kirkus Reviews "An exceptional companion to the source material, particularly for the lit-crit crowd looking to affirm Ferrante's reinvention of the future of the novel."--Library Journal