The story of a new name

Storia del nuovo cognome

Only a woman can know these ugly secrets. Two women's 50-year friendship and war: How to become the stronger woman without being defeated by her. Naples Quartet No. 2
The sequel to My Brilliant Friend, Italy's most enigmatic author, Ferrante, explores the passion, confusion, struggle, betrayal, and loss of youth. It has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 40 languages.
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The second of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, "A New Name" depicts the youth of Elena and Lila, as they experience love, loss, confusion, struggle, jealousy, and hidden destruction during the years when their lives diverge at the fastest speed.
On her wedding day, Lila discovered that marriage was far from what she had imagined; her virginity was nearly a rape. With a powerful desire to destroy, she entered Stefano's family business, seemingly becoming the woman she and Elena had both aspired to be as children. Having long struggled to conceive, Lila and Elena went on a seaside vacation to recuperate. That summer on Ischia changed everyone's lives...
Outraged by Lila's love, "I" (Elena) struggles to escape this dilapidated, violent, and vengeful neighborhood. I become the neighborhood's first university student, become engaged to a boy from a prominent intellectual family, and even publish my first novel. I return to Naples triumphant, only to find Lila, having left her ugly marriage, working a humiliating job at a meat processing factory.
When I discovered that my novel had completely stolen the unique power and inspiration from the secret notebook that Lila entrusted to me, I was forced to face an extremely painful question: Between me and Lila, who left and who stayed?
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In life and fiction, in a friendship, the stronger, more complex person obscures the weaker one. But in Elena and Lila's relationship, Elena, the weaker one, gains a kind of wisdom from her subordinate position—one that leaves Lila disoriented and dizzy. This process is difficult to describe, but it's precisely what fascinates me. Suffice it to say: there are many instances in Lila and Elena's lives where one person draws strength from the other. But remember this: this occurs not only in ways that help each other, but also in ways that they prey on each other, stealing emotions and knowledge from each other and draining each other's strength.
—Elena Ferrante in an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera (2011)
The Neapolitan Quartet is a brilliant and enduring exploration of jealousy – that most deadly of emotions, which sometimes masquerades as love.
—The New York Review of Books
An Italian epic poem about female friendship and fate… For the first time since Homer and Ovid, we have a female epic writer.
—The Atlantic Monthly
Ferrante's writing is so lucid, her narrative so candid, captivating, and captivating. —The Economist
For Ferrante, the primary purpose of fiction is to stir up those infected, open wounds, to poke them open, to make you aware of where your wounds are and where they come from.
—Los Angeles Review of Books
Elena must break free from the unbearable values ​​she has faced since childhood, resist the temptation of worldly success, and gain knowledge and strength from Lila without being overwhelmed by her... The richest description of friendship in modern fiction.
—NPR
Everyone should read anything Elena Ferrante signs.
—The Boston Globe

2017-04-01

人民文学出版社

492

9787020125265