Year: 2020
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2)
Language: english
File: PDF, 1.01 MB
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by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
A NEW NEW POWER located in a Naples divided by ELENA FERRANTE, the best-selling author of the New York Times of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Girl.
"There is no doubt that the publication of The False Life of Adults will be the literary event of the year" --ELLE Magazine
Giovanna's pretty face changes, it becomes ugly, at least that's what her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like his aunt Vittoria every day. But is that true? Is it really changing? Does she become her aunt Vittoria, a woman she barely knows but who her mother and father clearly despise? There is surely a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she really is. Europa Editions
Giovanna seeks her reflection in two twin cities that fear and hate each other: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, place of excess and vulgarity. It goes from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or loopholes.
Named one of time magazine's most influential people of 2016 and often touted as a future Nobel laureate, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world's most widely read and beloved writers. With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many awards. In The False Life of Adults, readers will discover another captivating, highly addictive and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story.
Book Review: nytimes.com
PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF
by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
Ferrante's women are so spectacularly torn to pieces that it is easy to forget that the vast majority of his novels have, if not happy endings, at least notes of reconciliation. His women go through the fire because they are writers; the act of storytelling becomes an act of reparation. Not necessarily true, as Lila says in "My Brilliant Friend": "Each of us tells his life as it suits us."
The pleasure for the reader is often to spot those moments of disjunction that Ferrante points out to us, where the story is partial or incomplete. But this is where the new novel presents a certain blur. The sad opening paragraph - with its warning that this account is merely a "snarling confusion of suffering, without redemption" - does not correspond to the story we have in our hands, of the evolution of a young woman, so brazen and reasonably secretive, allergic to banality, prone to fabrication but honest with herself about her desires. NYT
PDF-The Lying Life of Adults -PDF
by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)
Ferrante leaves many sons unresolved; we ask ourselves about the initial predictions and the enigmatic and strangely heroic conclusion of the novel: What is this progress that seems to contain the seeds of regression? When is a revolt inseparable from a retreat? There may well be a word for that.
