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"The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Quartet 2)" / Author: [Italy] Elena Ferrante / Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
"The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Quartet 2)" / Author: [Italy] Elena Ferrante / Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Two Women's 50 Years of Friendship and War
Naples Quartet No.3
The book has sold nearly 10 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
“I wanted her to be there, that’s what I was writing for.”
"My Brilliant Friend" "The Story of a New Name" follow-up,
Elena Ferrante, Italy's most mysterious writer
Exploring the emptiness, confusion, ambition and almost cruel love of middle age
"Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay" is the third part of Elena Ferrante's "Neapolitan Quartet", focusing on the restless and closely dependent middle age of "I" (Elena) and Lila.
With the help of my fiancé Pietro's family, I published my first novel and enjoyed the joy of success, while Lila, who stayed in Naples, was trapped in poverty and humble factory life. Like a knight, I intervened in Lila's life again and used the relationship of my husband's family to turn the lives of Lila and Enzo around - they became the first people in Naples to learn and master computer technology, and their tenacious and tenacious learning ability allowed them to accumulate huge wealth.
It is hard to tell who is better between me and Lila again. After marriage, I began to face my own creative crisis, and the quiet, middle-class marriage also made me exhausted. Pietro, who was quite indifferent to social change, wanted me to give up my identity as a writer, but when I played the roles of "mother" and "wife", I could not avoid the inner division and tension.
Lila's criticism of my new work made me doubt myself completely: Is the education and knowledge I received only making my work superficial, without real thoughts, and will I never be able to possess the disturbing truths in Lila's almost crude expressions? Until one day, my husband suddenly brought Nino home...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Elena Ferrante is currently the most popular and mysterious writer in Italy. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym, and her true identity remains a mystery.
Elena Ferrante published her first novel, Love Is Not Blind, in 1992, which quickly attracted attention and was made into a film of the same name by Italian director Mario Martone in 1995. Since then, she has published novels such as The Days of Being Abandoned (2002), The Lost Daughter (2006), The Beach at Night (2007) and the essay and interview collection Uncertain Fragments (2003).
From 2011 to 2014, Elena Ferrante published four related novels, My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay, and The Lost Child, at a frequency of one book per year. These four novels are known as the "Neapolitan Quartet". They describe the half-century friendship between two girls born in a poor community in Naples in an epic style.
The Neapolitan Quartet also sparked a "Ferrante fever" around the world, with millions of readers moved by the book's extremely realistic, sharp, and unvarnished description of female friendship. Although the author has never disclosed her gender, the media and critics have judged her to be a woman from her highly "autobiographical" writing. In 2015, Elena Ferrante was named "Woman of the Year" by the Financial Times. In 2016, Time magazine selected Elena Ferrante as one of the "100 Most Influential Artists."
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Translator’s Profile
Chen Ying, a PhD in Italian linguistics, is currently an associate professor at Sichuan International Studies University. She has translated "The Angry Castle", "A Man Disappears from the World", "Persecution", "Fist", "Venice is a Fish", etc.
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