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On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Europa Editions
March 2022
On Sale: March 15, 2022
176 pages
ISBN: 1609457382
EAN: 9781609457389
Kindle: B09B2WKRY3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as “an oracle among authors.” Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of “bad language” and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women’s truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others. Here is a subtle yet candid book by “one of the great novelists of our time” about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.
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