# In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing - Hardcover

by **Elena Ferrante** (Author), **Ann Goldstein** (Translator)

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**Four new and revelatory essays by the author of _My Brilliant Friend_ and _The Lost Daughter_.**

  

In 2020, Claire Luchette in _O, The Oprah Magazine_ described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer; she describes the perils of "bad language" and suggests ways in which it has long excluded women's truth; she proposes a choral fusion of feminine talent as she brilliantly discourses on the work of Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, Ingeborg Bachmann, and many others.

  

Here is a subtle yet candid book by "one of the great novelists of our time" about adventures in literature, both in and out of the margins.

  

**"Everyone should read everything with Elena Ferrante's name on it."**\--_The Boston Globe_

  

**Number of Pages:** 112

**Dimensions:** 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** March 15, 2022

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