Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey Audiobook

Quotes

• “In Frantumaglia there are some outstanding passages of literary criticism, feminist theory, film studies, sociology, and philosophy.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “Elena Ferrante…has created a body of work that stands alone. This represents an entire world, made up of language, family, gesture, emotions, politics, and culture.”

  — Washington Post

• “This is a fascinating volume, as ever beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein. At times, it is as absorbing as Ferrante’s extraordinary fictions and touches on troubling unconscious matter with the same visceral intensity.”

  — Guardian (London)

• “American readers hungry for every Ferrante sentence they can get will find many here in which she lowers her knife through the bread of life.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “A massive prank on criticism and the media: all of it done to show us how badly we read what we read, how badly women writers are treated, and how badly the press operates.”

  — New Republic

• “Ferrante’s work is not about women or friendship or abandonment: It is, rather, about a sense of the deep-down rawness of life itself—which runs like an electrical current beneath the prose.”

  — Nation

• “A feast for writers, lovers of literature, and creators of all kinds.”

  — Booklist

• “Devotees will surely pore over the bits and pieces in an effort to arrive one step closer at understanding the phenomenon that is Ferrante fever.”

  — Kirkus Reviews