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June 10, 2015 10:15 AM Subscribe
Yes! Ferrante is who I recommend for people interested in sprawling autobiographical fiction but think Karl Ove Knausgaard is too plodding and self-involved. See also.
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:31 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:31 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
What tofu crouton said. I'm just about to begin My Brilliant Friend, so excellent timing!
posted by FelliniBlank at 11:31 AM on June 10, 2015
posted by FelliniBlank at 11:31 AM on June 10, 2015
My Brilliant Friend is so good. It also has one of the most deceptive book covers ever, all of that gauzy white.
posted by betweenthebars at 11:35 AM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by betweenthebars at 11:35 AM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
Fine. I'll read your darn book that's been on my Wish List for six months. Fine. I'm not enjoying Seveneves and I want to read something good, so: fine.
posted by steef at 12:55 PM on June 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by steef at 12:55 PM on June 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
Where do I start with Ferrante? Troubling Love? Or something else?
Fascinating interview; thanks, PussKillian.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:20 PM on June 10, 2015
Fascinating interview; thanks, PussKillian.
posted by MonkeyToes at 4:20 PM on June 10, 2015
I would start with Days of Abandonment. Then the Neapolitan series.
posted by tofu_crouton at 5:03 PM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by tofu_crouton at 5:03 PM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
I started off with the first of the Neapolitan books and am about to start the third of them. I just dove in and have been absorbing them rapidly.
posted by PussKillian at 7:39 PM on June 10, 2015
posted by PussKillian at 7:39 PM on June 10, 2015
From that interview:
"The media simply can’t discuss a work of literature without pointing to some writer-hero. And yet there is no work of literature that is not the fruit of tradition, of many skills, of a sort of collective intelligence. We wrongfully diminish this collective intelligence when we insist on there being a single protagonist behind every work of art. The individual person is, of course, necessary, but I’m not talking about the individual—I’m talking about a manufactured image."
posted by Mister Bijou at 12:32 AM on June 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
"The media simply can’t discuss a work of literature without pointing to some writer-hero. And yet there is no work of literature that is not the fruit of tradition, of many skills, of a sort of collective intelligence. We wrongfully diminish this collective intelligence when we insist on there being a single protagonist behind every work of art. The individual person is, of course, necessary, but I’m not talking about the individual—I’m talking about a manufactured image."
posted by Mister Bijou at 12:32 AM on June 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
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