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Cargando... In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writingpor Elena Ferrante
   Books Read in 2022 (1,650) To borrow next (27) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |  In some ways the first 3 essays are a real series - the later ones refer to and continue the ideas of the earlier ones. Ferrante starts with the physical process of learning to write (including a tidbit about how paper looked like in Italy - while the different sized lines was also present when I was learning to write in Bulgaria, our notebooks had only one margin - on the left side. Apparently the Italian ones also had a margin on the right side. I don't know if it was her idea to include the images or her publisher proposed it but it was a good idea - especially because these margins become very important in the essays). Then she moves to learning how to create stories and finding her voice. She cites numerous books, she shares a personal anecdote or two. But her main thread remains the same - for years she believed that in order to be a writer, she needs to write like a man and the walk through her prose shows not only her finding her voice as a novelist but also as a woman. The 4th essay, the one dealing with Dante is really more about Beatrice than about Dante and it a lot of ways continues the thread from the previous 3 essays. Empowering and empowered women emerge even more strongly as the main point of the whole collection. I expected to like the essays a lot more than I did. I expected them to be scholarly (considering the expected original audience) but even then the prose was too dense, too... MFA-y. In places it felt like she is using 2 pages to expand on a sentence which was clear to start with - and these 2 pages lead us back where we started. There are some things which made me think but as a whole, it was a somewhat disappointing book. ( )5  AnnieMod | Oct 6, 2022 | Review of the Europa Editions hardcover (March 2022) translated by Ann Goldstein from the original Italian language edition "I margini e il dettato" (The Margins and the Dictation) (November 17, 2021) See cover detail at https://s26162.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/margins-300x300.png Detail from the cover art for "In the Margins". In the Margins consists of four essays by the reclusive Italian writer who writes under the pen-name Elena Ferrante and whose real identity has been a regular source of speculation for the Italian press. Three of the essays were a commission for the Umberto Eco Lectures at the University of Bologna, where they were finally delivered in late 2021 after the pandemic delay by an actress in the guise of Elena Ferrante. The fourth essay Dante's Rib was prepared for a Dante and Other Classics conference in early 2021 where it was delivered by another Dante scholar. Ferrante is best known for her quartet of The Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014), also the basis for the adaptation in the currently ongoing Italian language TV-series My Brilliant Friend (2018-2023?). Ferrante's essays are a wonderfully expressive look at her writing and reading life which takes its title from her tendency to write "beyond the margins" of the right lined note paper which she was provided in grade school. This is rather beautifully pictured in the cover art which shows a writer staring into the darkness beyond the page where a possibly dangerous 2-eyed creature lurks and looks back. From this simple premise, Ferrante extends her thoughts about writing by contrasting styles of those who work 'within' or 'outside' the margins. There is a terrific section to illustrate the 'outside" which is about Gertrude Stein and her "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (1933), a purported autobiography written by someone else which says more about the writer than about the supposed subject. It is all capped off with the concluding essay and its appreciation of Dante and his inspirational Beatrice (his Dante's Rib): Gorni has correctly pointed out that Beatrice "is the only woman in all of Western literature to be invested with such an honorable role." But why does Dante alone place his woman so high in the contemporary hierarchy of the female? What strategies does he use to get to the point of plausibly assigning her such an honour?. The translation was by Ferrante's regular English language translator Ann Goldstein and was excellent as always. (  ) alanteder | Apr 25, 2022 | Ferrante wrote these essays as lectures and then they hired an actress to read them to the audience at the Unversity of Bologna. That is some A-level introvert behavior and I would expect no less from her. I finished A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders based on his workshops of the Russian masters of the 19th century, so I was primed and ready to take on Elena Ferrante’s four essays in In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing. Please, I want more of these books. Ferrante is a credible expert reaching back to authors such as Virginia Woolf, Diderot, Dante, and in the process teases out and reveals her own writing process. This is more than the pat answer at an author reading to, “Where do your ideas come from? What is your writing process?” Like Saunders's book, this is a master class from a true master. (  ) auldhouse | Jan 25, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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El «cuarto propio» de Elena Ferrante: las lecciones de literatura de la autora que más intriga al mundo, con más de veinte millones de lectores «La voz de Elena Ferrante, junto a la de sus personajes --no solo Lila y Lenù, sino todas las mujeres que hablaron en sus novelas--, nos dicen en este libro: aquí estoy yo». --Annalena Benini, Il Foglio «Una escritora clásica en el sentido maravilloso de la palabra». --Milena Busquets La maravilla de descubrir la lectura y la escritura desde la infancia, los recuerdos de las primeras páginas escritas, sus olores y lugares, y luego los grandes hallazgos, desde los nombres canónicos de la literatura universal hasta las autoras que la han iluminado, impregnan estas lecciones magistrales que ha impartido Elena Ferrante invitada por la Cátedra Umberto Eco de la Universidad de Bolonia. En este recorrido histórico y personal por la inspiración y su vocación de escritora, la autora más enigmática de la actualidad desvela también sus consejos sobre la creación de personajes y la trama. Desde Shakespeare hasta Gertrude Stein, pasando por las obras de Diderot, Jane Austen o Virginia Woolf, y culminando con Dante y su Beatrice, Ferrante entrelaza lecturas y reflexiones con su propia obra y su vida, sobre las que por primera vez se confiesa en una nueva intimidad con sus lectores. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Bustle・The Guardian・Financial Times・A.V. Club・Cosmopolitan・Marie Claire・Fortune Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In 2020, Claire Luchette in O, The Oprah Magazine described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others. Here is a subtle yet candid book by "one of the great novelists of our time" about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins. "Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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