Frantumaglia A Writer’s Journey

Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante is the closest thing to a memoir that the intensely private author of the Neapolitan novels has published — a collection of letters, interviews, and occasional writing that documents her evolution as a writer and her thinking about fiction, anonymity, and the female experience. Ferrante writes about her sources, her process, her reading, and her resistance to public life with the same directness and psychological intensity that characterise her novels. For readers who love her fiction, Frantumaglia illuminates the intellectual and emotional world from which it emerges. For anyone interested in the relationship between an author’s life and work — and in the question of whether that relationship is anyone’s business but the author’s — this is essential and absorbing reading. Published by Europa Editions.