Elena Ferrante

Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend.

On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

In the Margins

Stephen Schenkenberg

"Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe "Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves."--Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine Four essays on writing and reading by the internationally bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.

farah farooq

oh to be sitting in a lecture room and listening to elena ferrante

I liked pain and pen the most of her essays. However I really didn’t like the whole Dante’s rib thing; it made my eyes glaze over. 

Seher Mohsin

an incredibly valuable insight into writing and the way other works influence our own work, especially when it comes to female authorship. i was generally interested in reading 'my brilliant friend' but after finishing 'in the margins', it has become an imperative.

i am really interested in further exploring the ideas that ferrante talks about in the lectures - the fight between the author and the language, the position of the female author in literature and also the distinction between an author and an average but arduous writer. i am curious how they will shape me, now that i am conscious of them.

elif sinem

"I believe that the pure and simple joining of the female 'I' to History changes History. The History of the first line, the one that hangs the witch's work on the gallows-note, something important has happened-is not, can no longer be, the History of the second, the one in which we find, around us, all the witchcraft we need."

In the Margins On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Reviews

Highlights