Story of the Lost Child

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Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein: Story of the Lost Child (2020, Europa Editions, Incorporated)

400 pages

English language

Published Jan. 9, 2020 by Europa Editions, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-78770-269-1
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4 stars (21 reviews)

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L'amie prodigieuse, and the rest of the series.

5 stars

You should just read this series if you haven't yet. Its conclusion brought chaos, heartbreak, and an acquired (?) sense of peace. Not sure if that makes sense. A type of discomfort that you have to eventually accept as peaceful. There is something very special about writing that covers the narrator's (almost) entire life. It makes you want to tidy up your own life's journey into chapters, trajectories, and hindsight reflections, yet not necessarily in a way that veils the messiness of self, relationships, and environment. Finished this while sitting at Beaver Lake, cried a lot, which is becoming my favourite way of feeling feelings (softly crying, in public).

reviewed The story of the lost child by Elena Ferrante (Neapolitan novels -- book four)

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5 stars

I think this one is a hard 5 star - excellent.

I had about 20-30 pages left when the train reached my stop and I sat on the platform bench to finish. I was transfixed!

I had a lot of thoughts ending these novels. Some things were easy - Nino's trash, Enzo deserved better, the incident that gives the novel its title is crushing.

Some things are not easily untangled. What can I make of Elena and Lila? What kind of friendship is this between these women, inescapable, supportive, toxic. What of Lila? Unapologetic, intractable Lila, Lila steeped entirely in Naples, wrapped up in the stories and the histories that Elena (both) mines for context. How much is her texture that of the city itself?

And Elena - do I like her? Should I? As the novels progressed, and the line between Elena Greco and Elena Ferrante deepens, where do …

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