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Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins | The New Yorker

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Ferrante’s Neapolitan series contains the most thoroughgoing feminist novels I have ever read.

September 1, 2015 Photograph by Herbert List/Magnum A few paragraphs into Elena Ferrante’s new novel, “The Story of the Lost Child,” the final volume of the writer’s so-called Neapolitan tetralogy—the first three volumes are “My Brilliant Friend,” “The Story of a New Name,” and “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”—Lena, the narrator, says that now we’re coming to “the most painful part of the story.” Really? It’s going to get worse? When we last saw Lena, she was walking out on a decent husband and two daughters to run off with a man who we know is going to betray her. The little girls…

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