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Fragments | Elena Ferrante
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Elena Ferrante is the bestselling author of The Days of Abandonment, which the New York Times described as stunning, Troubling Love, and The Lost Daughter. Her most recent novel, the first in a trilogy, is My Brilliant Friend . Frantumaglia is a collection of interviews and letters in which she discusses her controversial decision to remain out of the public eye, her thoughts on the art of writing, and the authors and books she admires. It is a free eGift from Europa Editions.
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IuliaC
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This 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.

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AlizaApp
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Elena 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 But this collection of letters, interviews, and essays (some previously unpublished) reveals a lot about her influences and processes.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.

BarbaraBB Wow, that sounds great! 7y
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GatheringBooks
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#MarchIntoOz Day 4: Both memoirs signify #PowerAndThePassion - also perfect for #WomenReadingMonth.

Cinfhen Nice! At the moment I‘m stumped...thank goodness I have all night to think about it😃 7y
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BooksForEmpathy
La frantumaglia | Elena Ferrante
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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.

2BR02B Your 🥑🍞 looks scrumptious! 7y
Heideschrampf Lovely picture! For me audiobooks help me bridge the reading slumps, maybe gibe it a try? 7y
minkyb I definitely think the time of year has something to do with how much reading gets done. 7y
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eclecticreading
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Picked this book up today! Excited to read it 😁📖 #nonfiction #InTranslation #toread #tbrpile #FerranteFever #EuropaEditions

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GatheringBooks
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#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.

RealLifeReading ❤️Ferrante! 7y
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RobinGustafson
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Weekend arrivals. More TBR goodness

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Nafiza
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So very good. Recommended for all writers.

#nonfiction #intranslation

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Lacythebookworm
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Up next. Continuing my Ferrante theme.

RealLifeReading I saw this at the library yesterday but thought I ought to read her series finish first 8y
LornaDH I actually need this! 💜 8y
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GatheringBooks
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#AprilBookShowers Day 7: #WomenInTranslation - I so want to read writing-themed stories. Soon, I hope.

TheBookAddict Wow, that cover! 8y
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La frantumaglia | Elena Ferrante
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Expandingbookshelf
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"I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner."

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Reader651
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Stumbled upon this at the library today. Looks like an interesting read for fans of Ferrante's novels and aspiring writers, alike.

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jessicaesquire
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Same, Elena.

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BookishMarginalia
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Also eerily prescient of the political situation in the US in 2016. 😳

TheBookbabeblog84 That is dead on! 8y
saresmoore Oh goodness. 8y
Kimzey Whoa! Prophetic. 😳 8y
kspenmoll Yes & yes! 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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Even our beloved Europa Editions copy editors make mistakes...

melissajayne Oh dear. 8y
Balibee146 After a pubb lunch perhaps ;-) 8y
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MemoirsForMe Yikes! 🙄 8y
ApoptyGina69 Feeling any better today? 8y
Camsmom2010 😱 8y
Bibliogirl Doesn't this mean printed and bound in a pub? 8y
Amandajoy This now has me looking for a face palm emoji 8y
originalembot I love finding mistakes in books. Reminds you that authors are human. Plus I like to then message my friend going "I found a HUGE spelling mistake". Or sometimes they put in the wrong word completely. How the editor doesn't pick up on those I'll never know. 8y
JessicaThunstromNelson Ha. This one seems ironic. The words you least expect to have mistakes in them are those related to publishing. 8y
bitterbear Can't win them all... 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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Three uncharacteristically succinct and revealing answers from Elena Ferrante.

bitterbear I just bought days of abandonment so I could finally read this... 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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Ferrante believes in books as entities with lives of their own, independent from their creators.

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BookishMarginalia
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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."

jetspins24 Definitely relevant. Sigh. 8y
Eugeniavb Not only a billionaire, but a famous xenophobe and ill-treater of women too. 8y
vivastory Very relevant. 8y
Dolly 🙊 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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Writing as seduction. 🙌🏼

slategreyskies Wow! Great quotes :) 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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Coffee at our happy place @TheBookmarkPR makes everything better (even my horrible cough!) #getindie

Lacythebookworm I really want to read this!! How is it?📚🙌 8y
BookishMarginalia @Lacythebookworm Due to its nature as a collection of odds and ends, it's a bit uneven. Also, I haven't read her books, and some pieces are very much discussions of her books, in particular Troubling Love. (edited) 8y
Lacythebookworm I've read 2 of the Neopolitan novels. Do you think I should read Troubling Love before reading this? 8y
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BookishMarginalia @Lacythebookworm The first part has a lot of discussion about it. If you don't like spoilers, it would be best to read the novel first. 8y
Lacythebookworm Thank you! I will read Troubling Love first. Perhaps for the #LitsyAtoZ challenge! 😉 8y
LeeRHarry Love the look of your bookshop! 😊 8y
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BookishMarginalia
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After a 4-hour nap, I am ready for a little bookstore time with @WanderingBookaneer

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GatheringBooks
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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.

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Lisadellaquila
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A little autumn reading

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BooksForEmpathy
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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 🙌🏻.

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AstoriaBookshop
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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!

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Books, once written, have no need of their authors

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Kenny
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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?

Belles You simply have to wait to open that box. He's adorable and tired. 8y
Mimi28 Aaaaawwww!! 😻 8y
Erynecki Maybe it'll just be a cat nap 8y
balletbookworm Shake the food bag 8y
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'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.'

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Kenny
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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

BookishClaire I didn't even know this was a thing!! Definitely want to read this. 8y
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I finally have it! #ferrantefever

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mhippo
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"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.