The Elena Ferrante Phenomenon | Italics

This month on Italics we will visit the Elena Ferrante phenomenon. Here in the U.S, Ferrante is best known for her New York Times best-selling Neapolitan Quartet of Novels about two friends growing up in post-war Italy. One of the nation’s most beloved novelists today, Elena Ferrante has garnered great praise both in Italy and in the United States.

To discuss this nonpareil cultural event with us are Giancarlo Lombardi, Professor and Executive Officer of the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Rebecca Falkoff, Professor of Italian at New York University. Both guests have significant publications on Elena Ferrante.

As both novelist and, now, the television series on HBO, which is adapted from the first of four novels, My Brilliant Friend, the Elena Ferrante phenomenon just seems to grow more and more.
(Taped: 10/16/2018)

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