Reviews

Compellingly readable as always. Ferrante has an incessant need to examine the female condition from every possible angle and at every possible stage of life. A lot of the themes familiar from her previous works - womanhood, the intelligentsia vs the coarser less educated people, etc. - are present in here, this time represented through the lense of motherhood. Some of this may feel repetitive to casual readers of Ferrante's oeuvre but I really think she is an author whose body of work is worth examining and knowing in its entirety.

This was a deeply unpleasant read that was nonetheless fascinating.

an interesting look at the ambivalent nature of motherhood. ferrante doesnāt shy away from ugly truths, something i always enjoy.

3.5*

Elena Ferante je oÄigledno opsednuta odreÄenim temama i motivima, pa se jedne te iste stvari uporno ponavljaju u njenim knjigama. I ovde imamo jug Italije, jednu LenuÄu, lutke, komplikovanu ženu sa komplikovanim meÄuljudskim odnosima i brojna neka pitanja o majÄinstvu. Stil pisanja i kvalitet samog teksta su sasvim na mestu, kao i uvek, samo mislim da sam se nakon Äitanja 5 njenih drugih knjiga posle ove malo umorila od onoga Å”to je suÅ”tinski jedna te ista priÄa. Nije ovo finalni raskid, ali mislim da Ferante i meni treba pauza jedna od druge, bar na neko vreme.


















