Troubling Love

‘I felt that she imagined herself caught between two sets of pupils, expropriated by two gazes.’ Patriarchal societies don’t exactly have a good track record for women to occupy their own space, including their own bodies. The agency of the female body is central to Elena Ferrante’s debut novel, Trou......more

3, 5*. Într-un articol din The Guardian dedicat cărților ilizibile, John Sutherland întreba odată dacă 8 milioane de cititori se pot înșela cu privire la valoarea unui roman. El se gîndea la unul dintre romanele lui Haruki Murakami, 1q84. Și cuteza să răspundă: „Da, se pot înșela, cum să nu?”. Cred c......more

It’s as if Ferrante were channeling Georges Simenon here, in her first novel, and doing quite a good job of it. Though the great fornicator never had this in depth take on women, being so terribly busy objectifying them. A woman in her sixties is found in the ocean “at a place called Spaccavento, a......more

Elena Ferrante's first novel is gripping and very well-written.......more

Ferrante has the unique ability to make you forgive - if not love - humanity at its most hateful.......more