The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante is published by Europa at £20. But I found relief very quickly, within just a few pages I was back with that unique, blunt prose of Ferrante's (with Ann Goldstein's translation), and back in the mind of a complicated female character. You may be able to find more … It feels exactly like the "My brilliant friend" saga. Ferrante’s work is so good I could cry.Hey, Queen! I read it in Italian which is not even my first language but loved it.
Vittoria says look closer: “She said I had blinders like a horse, I looked but didn’t see things that could disturb me. Even though there are many similarities (too many?) Will it be as good as the rest? Is she really changing? Had fame ruined fiction writing for Ferrante? But it is necessary, if you want to be able to breathe again.I finished this book in a few days. So - she sort of got disapponted in him for what he proposed to her in the end? She never puts her finger right on it and tells the reader, this, this is what you pay attention to. Was it ever in question for Elena Ferrante, the pseudonymous Italian author whose four-volume novel known as the Neapolitan quartet made her one of the most celebrated writers alive? I am quite sure nothing happened between Giovanna and Roberto, I think the book would have been a hundred pages longer if something *had* happened.Full Review: If The Lying Life of Adults, the marvelous new novel by the pseudonymous Elena Ferrante, doesn’t reach the soaring heights of her masterpiece, The Story of a New Name, that is mainly an issue of the Ferrantean accumulation—deep networks of supporting characters, all with rich inner lives—being limited by the confines of a mere 320 pages. The character who electrifies the novel’s plot—Vittoria—is poor; she rails against the classism of Giovanna’s parents. Il braccialetto, come la bugia, erode la fiducia di tutti coloro che ne hanno contatto e li incatena in un legame tossico. ).2) What happened between Gianni and Ida- did they become lovers? The only thing that will console her is meeting her aunt herself, in that poor, unfamiliar part of Naples where her father grew up.

Her latest novel, The Lying Life of Adults, is set over the protracted years of adolescence, from 12 to 17.
In the unforgettable opening sequence, her powerful father declares her ugly, comparing her face to that of his estranged sister, who repulses him. Class, gender, anger, talismanic objects, sense of place - it's all here, people. What also remains true here: The Lying Life of Adults affirms that Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves. To be honest, I couldn't care less about Giovanna's fate. All Giovanna knows about her aunt is what her parents have let on: that she’s a woman in whom “ugliness and spite were combined to perfection,” whom her mother detests “the way you detest a lizard that runs up your bare leg.” To have the face of Vittoria, she understands, is to be ugly beyond redemption. (e.g. When a series of novels intoxicates millions of readers worldwide, leaving them bereft when they reach the final page, we might well ask if the author of that series might herself have been drained by her creation.

Interesting to read after her series about girls growing up in earlier generation in Naples and what trapped them-poverty, beauty, violent/depressed men.There are lots of themes that are very interesting in this book: how adults start lying when they spent their own childhood getting told not to lie and then doing it with children of their own; how someone who has not been raised with a certain religion can find faith in the right time and place. But can it be true? Is she bound to turn out like Vittoria?

Girl, you make me so proud, and I love you.Despite my love of Ferrante's style, her exceptional talent for telling stories of female coming of age and identity crisis, her recurring themes on social class, adolescence, and the way relationships shape us... this one is still just a 2 stars for me.Despite my love of Ferrante's style, her exceptional talent for telling stories of female coming of age and identity crisis, her recurring themes on social class, adolescence, and the way relationships shape us... this one is still just a 2 stars for me.The new Elena Ferrante omg!


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