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Ferrante Fever and the Neapolitan Quartet: four reasons of a glocal success.

Conference in English held by Tiziana de Rogatis, Associate Professor of Comparative and Contemporary Italian Literature at Università per Stranieri di Siena.

With more than 7 million copies sold all over the world, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend cycle is at this moment the international emblem of Italian literature.

The success of the Neapolitan Quartet is based on an original formula consisting of four elements, apparently heterogeneous but profoundly intertwined from the point of view of their reception. These four elements immediately place the novels in an international context within which the quartet is perceived as an amalgam of particular and universal, local and global: a glocal story

Tiziana de Rogatis will articulate and clarify the four reasons for this international success, that have made the Neapolitan Novels so easily exportable all over the world: 1) the friendship between women and the violence against women; 2) a narration both popular and brilliant realized with the original adaptation of the themes and language that traditionally belong to mass culture and popular entertainment but also with the adoption of long narrative length; 3) the city of Naples – the elective landscape of the tetralogy; 4) a fantasy of memoir, which equates Elena Ferrante’s entire writing to a continuous extended autobiography, paradoxically generated by the writer’s anonymity. 

At the conference it will also take part Cecilia Schwartz, associate professor in Italian at the Stockholm University, who will present an introduction to the great success of Elena Ferrante in Sweden. 

After the conference, the vernissage of the exhibition ”Where is Elena Ferrante? – The rione, the setting for the universal literature, in Ottavio Sellitti’s photographs” will follow. 

 

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  • Organiserad av: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • I samarbete med: Folkuniversitet; Norstdets Förlag