An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are

Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are by ordu on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:42AM (#18647447)

I'm wandering the same. I have read this open letter and I cannot understand what the letter about. What author tries to tell? Why he have wrote this letter? Unclear message with unclear motives... My guess based on this, that the letter is exploded emotional instability caused by books of Elena Ferrante.

But, I'm not sure: if I cannot understand something, it doesn't mean that it is nonsense. Seems the only way to crack this and to understand what happens is to stop being ignorant about Elena Ferrante and read some of her books. Doesn't seem to be a fun.

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Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are by skybrian on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:27PM (#18650927)

It's not spelled out, but along the way she writes about various clues that (my interpretation) the books might be some sort of collaboration between a prominent Italian author and his wife. And who knows, maybe others?

But never mind the essay. For what it's worth, I liked the first book in the series and got bogged down in the second. It's an interesting glimpse of a particular time and place in Italy.

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Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are by kreetx on Monday December 10, 2018 @11:58AM (#18649240)

And same here. Such intriguing title, but can't really understand what the article is trying to do -- other than resonate on what the author has written about in his/her books.

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