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books_with_tutusandsons 's review for:
The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
And just like that...its done! 4 books and almost 2 thousand pages of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Series.
Once I start, I cant stop reading the series, especially if I own all the parts of it. The only time it happened is with The Seven Sisters series....but in my defense, there's a lot of them and they are huge.
I have to admit this was quite a journey. Without any doubt, Ferrante is an amazing writer. Through these books, you wont only be following the characters and their lives, but you will get to know Italy as it was back in 1950's and all the changes it faced from then till today.
There were times I hated these books and its characters for all their, in the end, human, characteristics - their selfishness, vanity, profanity and lack of of empathy. But then, the friendship between Elena and Lila was such a magnetic force one just couldnt get out of. Best friends, rivals, polar opposites but then so alike, and a relationship that is in a way a world of its own....a conundrum not even its subjects can get a hold of.
What is real and what is not? Where is the boundary between the truth and fiction? Whose story it actually is - one of the characters or the one of the writer? Who is Elena Ferrante we might never find out. Just as well as the fact if the stories she told us are a complete work of fiction or a biographical display of a town in a certain period of time. Nonetheless it is truly a captivating story worth reading.
Once I start, I cant stop reading the series, especially if I own all the parts of it. The only time it happened is with The Seven Sisters series....but in my defense, there's a lot of them and they are huge.
I have to admit this was quite a journey. Without any doubt, Ferrante is an amazing writer. Through these books, you wont only be following the characters and their lives, but you will get to know Italy as it was back in 1950's and all the changes it faced from then till today.
There were times I hated these books and its characters for all their, in the end, human, characteristics - their selfishness, vanity, profanity and lack of of empathy. But then, the friendship between Elena and Lila was such a magnetic force one just couldnt get out of. Best friends, rivals, polar opposites but then so alike, and a relationship that is in a way a world of its own....a conundrum not even its subjects can get a hold of.
What is real and what is not? Where is the boundary between the truth and fiction? Whose story it actually is - one of the characters or the one of the writer? Who is Elena Ferrante we might never find out. Just as well as the fact if the stories she told us are a complete work of fiction or a biographical display of a town in a certain period of time. Nonetheless it is truly a captivating story worth reading.