![]() ![]() Journalistic responses have tended to focus on something like the powerful reality of the characters and the impossibility of not identifying with them: “Elena is not destroyed” when she discovers her lover cheating on her, declares Roger Cohen, apparently with some relief, in The New York Review of Books. What about these novels is irresistible is not so simple to say. Her novels, whether in Italian or in English, are irresistible-less like sugar is irresistible, and more like pain is irresistible. ![]() ![]() She has acquired a certain notoriety not only because her writing is very intense, but also because no one outside a small handful of people has any idea who she is, or if she is a she. Ferrante, in case you haven’t heard, has become an international phenomenon. Like very many people, I have become a huge fan of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s novels. This post originally appeared on Arcade here. ![]()
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