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  • In the Margins

  • On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
  • By: Elena Ferrante
  • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
  • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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In the Margins

By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Summary

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

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; and 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.

©2021 Edizioni e/o; First English Publication (P)2022 Europa Editions
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