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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,...
Nov 15, 2018 · Troy Patterson reviews the new eight-hour HBO miniseries “My Brilliant Friend,” an adaptation of the first of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
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Dec 3, 2018 · “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 ...
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...
Aug 29, 2024 · “My Brilliant Friend” by Elena Ferrante. It is the first of four novels that tell the story of the friendship between Lila and Elena, two working class girls growing up in post-World War II Naples.
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In a review for The New York Times, Rachel Donadio described the novel as "a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman," praising Ferrante's ability to create a "powerful, unsentimental portrait of a friendship."
