![]() ![]() Ferrante’s books contain all the features of the grand popular narrative: simultaneously dense and readable, profound and light, constantly overturning situations, revealing the secret backgrounds of the characters, and adding event to event without respite. In the case of My Brilliant Friend, what has played a crucial role, first and foremost, is the balance between emotional charge, plot, and narrative pace. ![]() It takes more than mere luck to make a bestseller. Read and discussed everywhere – in noisy kitchens as well as crowded university classrooms – Ferrante’s books have been analyzed, devoured, and finally turned into a tv series produced by HBO in 2018. Published in 2011, My Brilliant Friend ( L’Amica Geniale) is enigmatic writer Elena Ferrante’s fifth book and the first of her internationally successful tetralogy Neapolitan Novels. ![]()
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