Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan Novels

3 credits · Graduate

This course will centre on four of the most globally celebrated and deeply loved novels of the last decade: Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend (translated 2012), The Story of a New Name (translated 2013), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (translated 2014), and The Story of the Lost Child (translated 2015). The Neapolitan Quartet is about many things: the workers’ and women’s movements, organized crime, gender and sexuality, and class struggle—but, above all, it is about the danger and power of writing, especially for women. FORMATS: Seminar