| Incidental Inventions Contributor(s): Ferrante, Elena (Author), Goldstein, Ann (Translator), Ucini, Andrea (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1609455584 ISBN-13: 9781609455583 Publisher: Europa Editions OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Women Authors - Literary Collections | Interviews - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 854.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.4" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called "one of the great novelists of our time" (New York Times). "This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me . . . I have written as an author of novels, taking on matters that are important to me and that--if I have the will and the time--I'd like to develop within real narrative mechanisms." With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote weekly articles, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a sort of prolonged interlocution. The subjects ranged from first love to climate change, from enmity among women to the experience of seeing her novels adapted for film and TV. Translated by Ann Goldstein, the acclaimed translator of Ferrante's novels, and accompanied by Andrea Ucini's intelligent, witty, and beautiful illustrations, this volume is a must for all curious readers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldstein, Ann: - Ann Goldstein has translated into English all of Elena Ferrante's books, including each of the New York Times bestselling installments in Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, the fourth of which, The Story of the Lost Child, was shortlisted for the MAN Booker International Prize. She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award. She lives in New York. Ucini, Andrea: -Andrea Ucini is a self-taught illustrator, born and raised in Italy and now living in the countryside of Hundested, Denmark, near Copenhagen, with his wife, three children, and plenty of animals. He works in a studio surrounded by Danish nature, and the changing seasons. Ferrante, Elena: -Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), and the international bestselling novel in four installments known as The Neapolitan Quartet (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Daughter, Europa 2012-2015). She is also the author of Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey, and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night. |