![]() ![]() She’s written a weekend column for this newspaper, covering such topics as house plants and children who lie for no reason. She’s given countless interviews, many of which were collected in Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey. ![]() In recent years, Ferrante has allowed herself to be drawn out, offering words beyond her novels. Too bad the books were so good, and – in the case of the Neapolitan quartet, the passionate, class-conscious saga of Lila and Lenù’s lifelong friendship – phenomenally successful. Initially, this seemed to mean that Ferrante would neither appear publicly nor comment on her work. “If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers if not, they won’t.” “I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors,” she wrote to her publisher in 1991. F or 30 years, the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has been publishing pseudonymously. ![]()
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