Elena Ferrante

Quotes

• “Later, every form of religious belief seemed absurd to me, and death was as if disfigured. [...] Today I would never say: he has gone away. I’ve lost the sense of the crossing over: nothing goes up to heaven, we don’t move to another world, we don’t return, we aren’t reborn. We remain definitively immobile; death is the last point on the segment of life that has chanced to be ours.”
• “I don’t know if my writing has the energy you say it does. Of course, if that energy exists, it’s because either it finds no other outlets or, consciously or not, I’ve refused to give it other outlets. Of course, when I write, I draw on parts of myself, of my memory, that are agitated, fragmented, that make me uncomfortable. A story, in my view, is worth writing only if its core comes from there.”

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Key facts

Occupation

Novelist

Language

Italian

Nationality

Italian

Genre

Literary fiction

Years active

1992–present

Notable works

The Days of Abandonment , Neapolitan Novels

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Wikidata facts

Official website

elenaferrante.com

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