Literature with Chléo
Elena Ferrante L'amica geniale ( My Brilliant Friend) This book was published in Italy in 2011 by the author Elena Ferrante, whose identity is still a mystery. This book, the first volume of a homonymous tetralogy, tells the story of two friends from a working-class neighborhood in Naples in the 1950s. Len ú , the narrator, and Lila are both academically gifted, but only Len ú will continue school beyond the compulsory age. The book mixes macro-history with an almost sociological analysis of the place of women in post-war Italian society with micro-history with the small life of these two families living in Naples. The child's view of the world, which is cruel, also shows the appearance of adolescence in the second half of the 20th century. As you read the book, you find yourself oscillating between different readings of this friendship.