Who is Elena Ferrante and what is her story?
In any case, that Starnone, either alone or in partnership with his wife, sat down and typed the novels that were published under the name of Elena Ferrante seems to be almost beyond doubt. Elena Ferrante is a pleasure to read. And she is also the greatest literary mystery of our time. But this is a story that goes beyond Starnone.
Who is Marco Santagata and who is Elena Ferrante?
In March 2016, Marco Santagata, an Italian novelist and philologist, a scholar of Petrarch and Dante, and a professor at the University of Pisa, published a paper detailing his theory of Ferrante’s identity.
Who is the author of farewell, Ghosts by Elena Ferrante?
Fellow Italian writer Nadia Terranova – whose upcoming fourth novel Farewell, Ghosts will be her first published in English (she shares Ferrante’s translator, Ann Goldstein) – was not surprised.
What was the task of the last volume of Elena Ferrante?
This last volume has two tasks in particular. It must solve the mystery of the callous behavior of the narrator, Elena Greco, in the first scene of the first novel, My Brilliant Friend.
How did Claudio Gatti find out the identity of Elena Ferrante?
When Claudio Gatti published an investigation into Elena Ferrante’s identity, a few years ago, he raised an outcry both in Italy and abroad. He had pried into the author’s privacy, violated her right to remain anonymous. It was unfair, it was irrelevant, we didn’t want to know.
When did Elena Ferrante publish La Frantumaglia?
In 2003, Ferrante published La Frantumaglia, a volume of letters, essays, reflections and interviews, translated into English in 2016, which sheds some light on her background. In a 2013 article for The New Yorker, critic James Wood summarized what is generally accepted about Ferrante, based in part on letters collected in that volume:
