fragments

La frantumaglia

Fragments (2016) is a collection of letters, interviews, and essays by Italian writer Elena Ferrante spanning over two decades. In it, Ferrante reveals her exploration of style and subject matter, reflecting on her own experiences of self-doubt and breakthroughs. These conversations offer a shrewd interpretation of the complex relationships between women and family, myth and culture, cities and memory, and writers and readers. Fragments serves as both a guide to Ferrante's literary world and an intelligent, sharp, and resolute literary manifesto.
The book is divided into three parts according to the year: the first part, "Fragments 1991-2003", is the correspondence between the writer and the publisher, focusing on the hidden connection between the mother's body and writing in "The Annoying Love", and also includes her detailed discussions with the director on the film adaptation of the novel, and also contains some creative fragments of the writer that have never been published; the second part, "Puzzle 2003-2007", includes the correspondence between the writer and the director on the film adaptation of "The Days of Abandonment", as well as the different directions she explored in her first three novels; the third part, "Letters 2011-2016", includes some written interviews accepted by the writer since the publication of the "Neapolitan Quartet". Readers can get a glimpse of the writer's interpretation of the novel and her sharp views on the history and tasks of women's writing.
The title of this book, "Fragment" (frantumaglia), comes from a dialect word often used by the author's mother, referring to the pain experienced by individuals encountering contradictions and confusion. However, the author developed it into his own literary concept and tried to release the liberating power behind this word in his years of creation: writers must use this vortex-like power to face the risk of losing control and reach real experiences that are unfamiliar to themselves and their readers.

2020-10-01

人民文学出版社

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9787020159178