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\u201cMy Brilliant Friend\u201d<\/strong> by Elena Ferrante<\/a>,\u00a0 is a brilliant read, if somewhat elusive at the start. This mirrors the enigmatic aspect of the novelist herself: Who is she?<\/p>\n

Is part of the draw-card the setting in Naples, that boisterous and “dangerous” city to the south of Rome?<\/p>\n

Many English speaking readers of these books, have been raving about them. Others have been wondering what all the hype is about.<\/p>\n

I must admit I was put off, at first glance, by the long list of characters at the beginning of the novel. It reminded me of a Shakespearean<\/a> play. Ten\u00a0 groups,\u00a0 mainly family ones, contain nearly fifty characters, including their names and their roles. I only read the list after I finished reading the book. I preferred to let the narrator<\/a> introduce the characters bit by bit, during the unfolding of events. Then I soon became entranced and pulled along by the characters, especially the two women.<\/p>\n

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The Genre<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This brilliant novel reads like a memoir, although the publisher specifies that it is fiction. It’s written anonymously\u2014Elena Ferrante is not the true identity of the author. This adds to the mystery of its creation and genre. Will the fascination with her books subside when the author’s identity is known?<\/p>\n

The Structure<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The novel is divided into three sections. It starts with a short prologue set in the present time of the middle-aged narrator.\u00a0 Then comes a relatively short flash-back to the fifties, with a vividly dramatic section entitled \u201cChildhood\u201d.\u00a0 The third and largest section, \u201cAdolescence\u201d,\u00a0 takes up the major part of the novel.<\/p>\n

Narration<\/strong><\/h4>\n

One thing that struck me as I read it, was the lack of \u201cwhite\u201d in the novel, apart from in the prologue. That is, it\u2019s almost devoid of direct speech<\/a>.\u00a0 However, the narrator does resort to past indirect discourse<\/a>, which adds authenticity.\u00a0 The novel flows along, and carries the reader with it. Rather than structuring the work around distinct narrative events,\u00a0 the narrator follows something like a stream-of-consciousness approach,\u00a0 using the past tense<\/a>, rather than the present.<\/p>\n

Ferrante, as the narrator, recalls in detail, everything that was important to her in her past life, recording it, journal-style, with the special focus on the friendship between her and the enigmatic Lila. When an important event is about to take place, the narrator foreshadows it, by announcing its importance beforehand. I can imagine her having narrated all of this to her brilliant friend, Lila, at some stage.<\/p>\n

The narrator\u2019s voice is what captures the reader initially. This is an obviously intelligent, but at the same time, modest, narrator. And she manages to breathe life into the retelling of past events, almost certainly because she holds these characters close to her heart. \u201cShow\/don\u2019t tell\u201d, becomes \u201cTell, but do it vividly and sensitively!\u201d<\/p>\n

Characters and Themes<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The story focuses on two main protagonists, the narrator, (Elena), and her best friend<\/a>, Lila. But a pageant of other characters enters throughout the novel. The socio\/cultural scene is depicted almost like in a Bruegel painting. In this way, the complexity and richness of the Italian personality and culture, is shown via the colourful characters that people the novel. \u00a0Universal themes and motifs (importance of family, Communism, poverty, violence, sexuality, love and passion) are highlighted, starting with the idiosyncrasies of the two friends, and branching outwards into the community in which they live, study and work.<\/p>\n

The Strengths<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This story is full of conflict and passion, and rests on a base of dramatic irony<\/a>. It\u2019s one of those novels<\/a> that draws you back into its aura each night. I curled up with it on the couch, as with an old friend, in order to continue following the intertwining threads. I wanted to find out what would become of these brilliant friends.\u00a0 I’d been drawn into their lives and wondered about the fate that awaited them.<\/p>\n

For me, this was the strength of the novel:\u00a0 that I could be drawn in like this,\u00a0 becoming one with the two friends and their community.\u00a0 Ferrante’s novel is a brilliant read!<\/p>\n

Here is a comment from a friend that I’m adding at this point to illustrate the differences of opinion on this novelist:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
I agree with you that Ferrante uses ‘telling’ rather than ‘showing’ very effectively. \u00a0I applaud Ferrante for her huge scope and cast of characters, but couldn’t relate to her protagonists, particularly the manipulative and ruthless Lila. To me the novels have a ‘Mills & Boon’ quality, using clich\u00e9s and formulaic descriptions. Giorgia Alu says they are ‘in between soap opera, Greek tragedy, and opera’ – not necessarily a criticism, but disappointing to me in the quality of the writing.<\/div>\n
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Was it the translation, which made the novels slow and repetitive in pace? Or, possibly because I listened to them as audiobooks? How I wish I could enjoy these novels as you do!<\/div>\n
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Giorgia Alu, an Italian academic from the University of Sydney’s Dept of Italian Studies, writes in The Conversation<\/a> about Elena Ferrante.\u00a0 She believes that “many readers experience a stronger emotional bond with the protagonists, precisely because the author has ‘extracted herself from the text itself.”<\/div>\n
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This reader equates Elena the narrator with the elusive Elena the author. In her rare interviews, she freely admits ‘These events truly happened, it’s my real life, the names are the real ones’. See more reviews of Ferrante in The Paris Review.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Editor’s Note<\/strong>: In October 2016, investigative reporter Claudio Gatti<\/b> published an article indicating that Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator, is the real author behind the Ferrante pseudonym.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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