In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing - Elena Ferrante

n nFour new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.n n nIn 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.n n nHere 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.n n nEveryone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it.--The Boston Globen