The Story of the Lost Child

473 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-60945-286-5
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OCLC Number:
906010450

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reviewed The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante (Neapolitan novels -- book four)

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A couple of months ago, I finished this book and started writing this review. Now I have come back to finish it and here's what I find:

Four books ago, Lila disappeared prompting Lenu to write about it. Now, in the epilogue of book 4, she admits defeat. "What is the point of all these pages then? I wanted to capture her. To have her beside me once again."

Now that I've finished reading, the boundaries have disolved. Can't I just go back and start over with them? Can I have them beside me once again?

Unlike books, real life inclines toward obscuity, not clarity.

So that's what I wrote last December. I can no longer distinguish between what I was saying and what I was quoting. I was immersed at the time. When I say "boundaries desolved" I was either quoting or referring to Lila's use of the phrase …

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Subjects

  • Social life and customs
  • Female friendship
  • Fiction

Places

  • Italy
  • Naples (Italy)

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