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1. www.nytimes.com › 2024/09/08 › artsReview: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Comes to a Brilliant Conclusion

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   Sep 8, 2024 · “My Brilliant Friend” was never a mainstream hit in this country. But it may in a way be the true successor to “The Sopranos.”

   • Author: James Poniewozik

2. www.bbc.com › culture › article'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of ...

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   This summer, the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was voted the best book of the 21st Century in a poll by The New York Times, which described it as an "uncompromising,...

3. www.nytimes.com › 2018/11/14 › artsReview: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic - The New ...

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   Nov 14, 2018 · The story of a febrile and rivalrous friendship between two girls in a working-class Italian neighborhood in the 1950s, it is as intimate as “Game of Thrones” is sweeping. The first season ...

   • Author: James Poniewozik

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5. www.nytimes.com › 2024/08/23 › booksBook Club: Let’s Talk About ‘My Brilliant Friend’ - The New ...

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   Aug 23, 2024 · The book is the first novel in Ferrante’s so-called Neapolitan quartet, which tracks the lifelong friendship between Lenù and Lila, two women from a rough neighborhood in Naples, Italy, even as...

6. www.euronews.com › culture › 2024/07/30'My Brilliant Friend': Why is it the greatest book of the ...

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   Jul 30, 2024 · Earlier this month, The New York Times Book Review ranked her book "My Brilliant Friend" number one on its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century based on a survey of authors...

7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2018/12/10The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   Dec 3, 2018 · The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” HBO’s small-screen adaptation dramatizes Elena Ferrante’s novel without transforming it. By Emily Nussbaum

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   Is My Brilliant Friend a good book?

   • Earlier this month, The New York Times Book Review ranked her book "My Brilliant Friend" number one on its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century based on a survey of authors, intellectuals and critics. A ranking that was backed by The New York Times readers who placed the novel at 8th place in their own books’ top 100.

   'My Brilliant Friend': Why it is the best book of the 21st century

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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' based on a true story?

   • HBO’s new series “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the wildly popular Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante, is a different but no smaller challenge. The story of a febrile and rivalrous friendship between two girls in a working-class Italian neighborhood in the 1950s, it is as intimate as “Game of Thrones” is sweeping.

   Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic

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   Is 'My Brilliant Friend' the Best Book of the 21st century?

   • This summer, the first book in the series, My Brilliant Friend, was voted the best book of the 21st Century in a poll by The New York Times, which described it as an "uncompromising, unforgettable novel". By comparison, the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend has flown slightly under the radar.

   'Criminally underrated': Why My Brilliant Friend is one of the ... - BBC

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   Is My Brilliant Friend a good TV series?

   • It has not swept awards shows, and is often missing from round-ups of the best prestige television (it failed to make the cut of BBC Culture's own greatest TV series of the 21st Century poll in 2021). Despite its much-loved source material, the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend hasn't attracted a comparable amount of attention (Credit: HBO)

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   What is my Brilliant Friend about?

   • “My Brilliant Friend” is a story about many things—left-wing politics, male violence, fancy shoes, the warping force of patriarchy on female creativity—but it’s centrally about class-jumping, through education, the kind that makes one aware of the origins of social class, including the ways it’s embedded in art.

   The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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   How does Ferrante feel about Lila in my Brilliant Friend?

   • This mood has been intensified by Ferrante’s own Banksy-level mystique. In the book “My Brilliant Friend,” Elena, the teacher’s pet, sees the exceptional Lila as not merely her competition but also her role model, her mirror, and, eventually, her subject.

   The Sweet Linearity of “My Brilliant Friend” - The New Yorker

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9. elenaferrante.com › tv-series › the-new-york-timesThe New York Times: Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an ...

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   Nov 14, 2018 · HBO’s new series “My Brilliant Friend,” based on the wildly popular Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante, is a different but no smaller challenge. The story of a febrile and rivalrous friendship between two girls in a working-class Italian neighborhood in the 1950s, it is as intimate as “Game of Thrones” is sweeping.