I have a theory approximately the friendship at the centre of this remarkable set of novels,though it may well be nonsense. Thats the beauty of the writer’s anonymity: it helps us find what we want to
The rise of Elena Ferrante is tremendously pleasing, even from a purely practical point of view. Ferrante is distinguished for two things: her novels, or for not existing. Writing under a pen-name,scrupulously guarding her identity, eschewing literary public relations, or the Italian writer has managed,in these days of hype, to find a massive global audience without flogging her physical self as an integral aspect of publication at all. Splendid.
I’m not against literary promotion. It has ensured that virtually no British town is without access to some sort of book-based event. Still, and it’s good to be reminded that creative individuals still have choices,that writers don’t necessarily also have to be travel-crazy public speakers, that different sorts of people can find their audience in different ways, and that quality counts.
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Source: theguardian.com