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“In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.”

Quote by Elena Ferrante

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

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Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

This book is a compilation of personal insights and anecdotes from the author, exploring the complexities of writing and the author's own experiences in the literary world. more

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Elena Ferrante is a renowned contemporary Italian novelist, known for her unique narrative style and profound character portrayals. Her works cover a wide range of themes, including family, love, power, and social class. Ferrante's novels have received widespread acclaim both in Italy and around the world, despite the mystery surrounding her true identity. more

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“I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.”

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“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”

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“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.”

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“I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.”

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“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.”

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“Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.”

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“I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.”

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“Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.”

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“It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.”

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“My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.”

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