Abandoned Days

Elena Ferrante, author of the "Neapolitan Quartet," deconstructs the darkness and lies of marriage. Olga's story is the story of a woman's struggle against abandonment. After experiencing her lowest and most devastating moments, she rebounds and reveals how abandonment changed her, but did not destroy her. —Elena Ferrante. "'The Days of Abandonment' was written after much painful excavation, and it gave me confidence."
★ Renowned director Roberto Faenza adapted the film of the same name into "The Days of Abandonment" (2005)
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Thirty-eight-year-old Olga suddenly stepped into the hell of life: her husband Mario abandoned her, their young children, and a wolfhound named Otto for a younger woman.
Olga lost not only a fifteen-year marriage but also her entire sense of life. She wrote unsent letters to her husband, trying in vain to understand the reasons for the disintegration of her marriage. She tried to track him and his lover, even publicly losing her composure. She wallowed in the shame of abandonment, allowing everything around her to descend into chaos: a minor car accident, a sick child, the poisoning of her dog, and a night of madness with a neighbor.
But Olga did not become the "abandoned woman" she had feared since childhood. In the ruthless self-examination and passionate writing, she erased the false projections she had long had on her husband and marriage, and finally found herself.
"The Days of Abandonment" (2002) is the second novel by Italian writer Elena Ferrante. It was adapted into a film of the same name by Roberto Faenza in 2005.
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Why had he so easily discarded fifteen years of love, tenderness, and the passionate times we'd shared? Time, time. He had taken up so much of my life, and now he was so willfully destroying it. What an unfair decision, and a one-sided one. He'd cast aside the past like a nasty insect.
Ferrante drives the hammer into her body; she invites the reader to penetrate the page. —Financial Times
What excites us about "The Days of Abandonment" literary is that it describes a soul in crisis, almost losing its stability and decency, and her heart becomes a battlefield where reason and madness, survival and loss of control conflict with each other. - The New Yorker
Stunning... The author's angry, furious voice is rare. - The New York Times

2023-06-01

人民文学出版社

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9787020179688