But in the last few weeks, shortly before a long trip through Italy, the time was right. I came to the Neapolitan novels late, because I usually prefer to focus my reading on Australian writing. In 2016, Time Magazine listed the author as one of the one hundred most influential people. In July 2017, the first of the quartet, My Brilliant Friend, published in English in 2012, still held the number two position in the print top ten books published by Text, and all four are listed in its top ten Ebooks. Rarely have critics worldwide been so uniform in their praise of any books. Learning from Elena Ferrante: The Neapolitan NovelsĮlena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels have taken the world by storm.
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