Frantumaglia: An Author's Journey Told Through Letters, Interviews, and Occasional Writings | 
pickThis volume regroups stunning letters, interviews and essays by renowned author Elena Ferrante. Apart from letting slip some clues on her background, this is another opportunity to get immersed in her amazing writing style.
It is impressive that she succeeded to not reveal her identity since her first book published in 1992, in spite of the immense pressure from the media as a result of the tremendous success reported by her novels worldwide.
pickElena Ferrante only exists on the page and wants her books to speak for themselves. But this collection of letters, interviews, and essays (some previously unpublished) reveals a lot about her influences and processes. It made me want to go re-read all her other books.
I‘m in quite the reading slump. Nothing is sticking and my mind starts racing around every time I️ try to sit still and focus. Must be the holidays!
My friend is starting this one, and so I️ thought I‘d give it a try; hopefully I️ will be motivated by the potential for a good book discussion.
Picked this book up today! Excited to read it 😁📖 #nonfiction #InTranslation #toread #tbrpile #FerranteFever #EuropaEditions
#UncannyOctober Day 2: While I have visited Venice, Rome, Florence, Verona, Milan, Tuscany - it‘s always been my dream to go to Naples.
Another #NFAboutACountryILikeToVisit primarily because of Ferrante‘s Neapolitan series.
Weekend arrivals. More TBR goodness
Up next. Continuing my Ferrante theme.
#AprilBookShowers Day 7: #WomenInTranslation - I so want to read writing-themed stories. Soon, I hope.
"I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner."
Stumbled upon this at the library today. Looks like an interesting read for fans of Ferrante's novels and aspiring writers, alike.
Also eerily prescient of the political situation in the US in 2016. 😳
Even our beloved Europa Editions copy editors make mistakes...
Three uncharacteristically succinct and revealing answers from Elena Ferrante.
Ferrante believes in books as entities with lives of their own, independent from their creators.
The questions Ferrante poses about her country's own billionaire prime minister seem very appropriate for us as we prepare for the 45th president to take over. She continues: "I would like to find a plot and characters that could represent the mythology within which the symbol Berlusconi is dangerously encysted..." Ferrante calls out the "enthusiastically credulous audience" for believing the illusionism of politicians as "benevolent divinities."
Coffee at our happy place @TheBookmarkPR makes everything better (even my horrible cough!) #getindie
After a 4-hour nap, I am ready for a little bookstore time with @WanderingBookaneer
In the midst of marking (yes it is the season to be whipping them out red pens at the university), I receive this. And my heart is still.
It's here! It's here! I am beyond excited for this one. Elena Ferrante (whoever she is!) is a genius and through her writing I have had the most visceral, most cohesive, most satisfying reading experiences. This book is a compilation of essays, letters, and interviews where she so generously lets us into her life, her anxieties, thoughts about motherhood, psychoanalysis, feminism, and much more. The cover photograph is so perfect as well 🙌🏻.
Do you have #FerranteFever?
Don't miss our #FerranteNightFever event this Friday 11/4 with translator Ann Goldstein, journalists Elissa Schappell and Jennifer Maloney, author Siddhartha Deb and Europa editor Michael Reynolds!
Books, once written, have no need of their authors
The new Elena Ferrante book is in this box and I have been waiting months and months for it but this very cute cat is being very cute right now. WHAT DO I DO?
pick'The material collected here further reveals Ferrante as a remarkable writer and deeply original thinker across a range of subjects but particularly on writing, the importance of fiction, feminism and motherhood.'
I am ready for this book right now. I am ready for it to be November 1 so I can start reading this book. http://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9781609452926
"However I state it, the fact is I have assumed the right to imprison others in what I seem to see, think, feel, imagine, and know." Wowzers, I gotta read this one when it's out.
