Adults' life of lies

● NETFLIX is about to launch a TV series of the same name adapted from the novel● Ferrante uses a scalpel-like brushstroke to restore the shame, despair, anger and desire of youth● Only real young people who face up to ugliness and disgrace can gain the strength to face themselves● The writer's works have been translated into 45 languages ​​so far "The Lying Life of Adults" (2019) is the latest work of Italian writer Elena Ferrante after the "Neapolitan Quartet", focusing on the youth and growth of Giovanna, a girl from a middle-class family in Naples.
Two years before her father left home, twelve-year-old Giovanna accidentally heard her father tell her mother that she was ugly and looked more and more like her sister Vittoria, whom he had always disliked. This sentence drove Giovanna to the lower town of Naples for the first time to face the humble past left behind by her father.
Giovanna witnessed the absurd and tragic love story of her aunt Vittoria and Enzo, and also formed an odd friendship with Enzo's orphans, Tonino, Currado, and Giuliana. That uncouth and reckless lower-class neighborhood gradually became Giovanna's vehicle for rebellion against the hypocritical lives of the upper middle class. With a masochistic passion, she observed and imitated the lies of the adult world: the hypocritical marriage of her parents, Vittoria's cheesy love affairs, the truth behind the bracelet her father and aunt were fighting over...
While accompanying her aunt to church, Giovanna encounters the devout and learned Roberto, and secretly intervenes in Giuliana's relationship with Roberto. After her ambiguous fantasies about Roberto are shattered, Giovanna loses her virginity in a decisive and brutal manner. On the train to Venice, sixteen-year-old Giovanna and her best friend promise to each other to enter adulthood in a unique way.

2021-08-01

人民文学出版社

344

9787020169498