In the Margins - On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing | Elena Ferrante

From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying Life of Adults, and The Lost Daughter, come four revelatory pieces offering rare insight into the author’s formation as a writer and life as a reader. Ferrante warns us of the perils of “bad language”—historically alien to the truth of women—and advocates for a collective fusion of female talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of her most beloved authors.

Ferrante’s writing has been described as compulsive (The Times) and astonishing (Guardian), her novels have sold millions and been translated into many languages as well as adapted for TV internationally.

Elena Ferrante is also the author of The Days of Abandonment , Troubling Love , The Lost Daughter , and the four novels known as the Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child), Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey , a children’s picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Nigtht , The Lying Life of Adults, and a collection of personal essays illustrated by Andrea Ucini entitled Incidental Inventions .

My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series premiered in 2018 and The Lost Daughter was made into a feature film in 2021.