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In the margins, on the pleasures of reading and writing, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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In the margins, on the pleasures of reading and writing, Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

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eng

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illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the margins

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1262124350

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Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Sub title

on the pleasures of reading and writing

Summary

Four new and revolutionary essays by the author of <i>My Brilliant Friend</i> and <i>The Lost Daughter</i>. In 2020, Claire Luchette described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look a the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer. She describes the perils of "bad language," and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others. --Adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Editor's note -- Pain and pen -- Aquamarine -- Histories, I -- Dante's rib

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