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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
dnf at 70ish% :( this was an amazing book. Very well written and beautiful but it was too much for me. This book started messing with my head and I was not happy to pick it up to read
OH MY GOODNESS.
Best of Ferrante!
中间因为钥匙开不了门被困家中，儿子病倒，狗被下毒快要死，女儿在模仿母亲同时不停地审判母亲，而奥尔加处于一种迷离飘浮状态。费兰特写得太好了，沉浸感十足，感觉自己如奥尔加般绝望恐惧又疲乏至极但又不甘被打败。
（邻居是个安静友好内敛的53岁一头白发的乐手，嘿嘿刚好代入克那个谁。）
Best of Ferrante!
中间因为钥匙开不了门被困家中，儿子病倒，狗被下毒快要死，女儿在模仿母亲同时不停地审判母亲，而奥尔加处于一种迷离飘浮状态。费兰特写得太好了，沉浸感十足，感觉自己如奥尔加般绝望恐惧又疲乏至极但又不甘被打败。
（邻居是个安静友好内敛的53岁一头白发的乐手，嘿嘿刚好代入克那个谁。）
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was the end of my love with Ferrante :(
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Raw and excoriating and intense, Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment (5 stars out of 5) is about a woman’s descent into a kind of madness after she is left by her husband for someone younger. Or, it might be argued, that it is the only natural reaction to such perfidy. I haven’t read other reviews yet, but I imagine this book must be polarizing: either it’s a sensationalized portrait of abject hysteria that feeds into stereotype, or an empathetic portrait of the emotional life of the betrayed. I prefer the latter. (And yes, I use the word "hysteria" with all its patriarchal implications.) Either way it’s both hellish and cleansing, the way a fire burns a forest to the ground. I haven’t read or watched My Brilliant Friend, so I can’t compare the two. (An additional warning, in case the book’s description didn’t faze you already: there’s a dog, and bad things happen.)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There has been too much debate on Elena Ferrante's identity and there is a possibility that it is either Anita Raja or Domenico Starnone, both happened to be married to each other. With Domenico Starnone's latest novel taking the same plot as this novel, the mags & journals have started the comparison again. To my knowledge, both of them have denied being Ferrante.
I had recently finished the Neapolitan novel and could have waited to read The Days of Abandonment but this recent surge of news on Ferrante put it back on my radar and I searched for that epub I had saved in my kobo for this one.
Elena Ferrante never disappoints in writing a troubling family story mired with self-reflection brought on by things as big as a separation to as small as casual sex. Olga's husband has left her and she is bearing with this loss by becoming what she thought she would never be, that poor lady (povera). This is a story of her going through her ups & downs and finally not caring. It's actually a coming-to-terms story. The writing is fluid and the translation clear thus making it a very enjoyable read.
Finished with this, I will now be waiting to get my hands on Ties to see the comparison & differences with this novel.
I had recently finished the Neapolitan novel and could have waited to read The Days of Abandonment but this recent surge of news on Ferrante put it back on my radar and I searched for that epub I had saved in my kobo for this one.
Elena Ferrante never disappoints in writing a troubling family story mired with self-reflection brought on by things as big as a separation to as small as casual sex. Olga's husband has left her and she is bearing with this loss by becoming what she thought she would never be, that poor lady (povera). This is a story of her going through her ups & downs and finally not caring. It's actually a coming-to-terms story. The writing is fluid and the translation clear thus making it a very enjoyable read.
Finished with this, I will now be waiting to get my hands on Ties to see the comparison & differences with this novel.
La lingua è la bellezza di questo libro. Il modo con cui Ferrante cambia registro all'improvviso, da un italiano ricercato ad una lingua più oscena rende perfettamente il disagio mentale in cui si trova la protagonista di questo libro. È talmente intenso tra riuscire a trasmettere un senso di perdizione ineluttabile.