https://newfound.org/2016/03/13/envy-ungratefulness-and-hope-why-elena-ferrante-is-a-bad-role-model/ An Inquiry of Place Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:37:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://newfound.org/2016/03/13/envy-ungratefulness-and-hope-why-elena-ferrante-is-a-bad-role-model/#comment-28960 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:14:56 +0000 https://newfoundjournal.org/?p=15847#comment-28960 I can certainly understand feeling envy for Ferrante’s success. I feel that way for many writers whose work I admire. For instance, Carson McCullers was only twety-three when she wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. TWENTY-FREAKING-THREE. But while we very know very little of Elena Ferrante the woman, I suspect it has less to do with her choice to spurn fame because of its inconveniences or what-have-you. I think it’s a necessary function of her writing life, that anonymity allows her to say whatever she needs to say, without fear of censure from the family, friends, and others, who are probably represented rather realistically in her works. I’ve read all seven of her published novels and they all contain similar tropes/themes/ideas, presented in various, spellbinding ways. Probably, her writing is highly autobiographical.

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