(“Over the years, I’ve moved often, in general unwillingly, out of necessity. One could also infer from her fiction and from her interviews that she is not now married. She has a classics degree she has referred to being a mother. From them, we learn that she grew up in Naples, and has lived for periods outside Italy. In the past twenty years or so, though, she has provided written answers to journalists’ questions, and a number of her letters have been collected and published. It’s assumed that Elena Ferrante is not the author’s real name. Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate.
She is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels, the most celebrated of which is “The Days of Abandonment,” published in Italy in 2002. Illustration by Annette MarnatĮlena Ferrante, or “Elena Ferrante,” is one of Italy’s best-known least-known contemporary writers. For Ferrante’s heroines, life is a conundrum of attachment and detachment.
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