“Writing Is an Act of Pride”: A Conversation with Elena Ferrante | The New Yorker
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“I have assumed the right to imprison others in what I seem to see, feel, think, imagine, and know,” the pseudonymous Italian novelist says.
Save this story Save this story The Italian novelists Elena Ferrante and Nicola Lagioia discuss writing and “the elusive subject that is women” in Ferrante’s forthcoming book “Frantumaglia.” Photograph Courtesy Europa Editions T_he following is an excerpt from an e-mail correspondence, which took place last year, between the Italian novelists Elena Ferrante and Nicola Lagioia, whose English-language début, “Ferocity,” will be published in the spring of 2017, by Europa Editions. The full correspondence will appear in Elena Ferrante’s “Frantumaglia: An Author’s Journey Told Through Letters, Inte
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