Buonanno Foley, E: La Frantumaglia: Elena Ferrante‘s fragmen

This book explores the importance of Elena Ferrante s only non-fictional work, La Frantumaglia, which, like her novels, reveals a deep focus on fragmented identity, recovery, and reshaping of the self. The book is structured as a multi-layered gradual disclosure of a critical apparatus of the author s fictional works and it can be considered a manual on how to read, interpret, and understand Ferrante‘‘s other works, Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment, and The Lost Daughter. In this book, the author investigates the well thought-out scheme of La Frantumaglia, its narrative contents and the author s preference of a colloquial style embodied in short, simple and direct utterances. This colloquial style that may blur and complicate the connection with the reader and cause linguistic difficulties is thoroughly discussed in the last section. This book, therefore, wants to provide a guide in the exceptional and ordinary journey of Elena Ferrante in self identifying and creating herself and her writing.