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02917aam a2200349 i 4500 001 871F48288FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 201201s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020046756 020 $a 0231200412 020 $a 9780231200417 020 $a 0231200404 020 $a 9780231200400 035 $a (OCoLC)1204635134 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ4866.E6345 $b Z85 2021 082 00 $a 853/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Ricciardi, Alessia, $e author. 245 10 $a Finding Ferrante : $b authorship and the politics of world literature / $c Alessia Ricciardi. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xii, 240 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The novels in the Neapolitan Quartet were not, as we now know, written by Elena Ferrante, the mysterious daughter of seamstress in Naples, who now lives abroad teaching classics but by Anita Raja, a prominent translator of German literature, whose father was a judge and whose German-Jewish mother wrote language textbooks. Does any of this matter? Does it or should it change the way we read and think about these best-selling novels? In Finding Ferrante in Contemporary World Literature, Alessia Riccardi argues that Ferrante's biography, which was eagerly consumed by English-speaking readers, has led to a critical reception of the Neapolitan novels that downplay their literary ambitions and political critiques. In examining the Neapolitan Quartet with Anita Raja as author, Riccardi considers four different dimensions of the novels, including sexuality, work, politics, and their status as works of global fiction. Rather than reading Ferrante's novels as works of autofiction shaped by the local and national cultures of Naples and Italy, Riccardi begins by examining how Raja's work as a translator of Goethe, Benjamin, and Christa Wolf and in dialogue with the varied concerns of these writers and world literature more broadly. Ultimately, in viewing these novels as written by Raja and not "Ferrante," Riccardi contends that what is at stake is not the personal authenticity of writing but rather its ethical and political imagination and the ways in which fiction gives expression to ideas and truths not expressed in reality"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Ferrante, Elena $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Ferrante, Elena. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00386215 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ricciardi, Alessia. $t Finding Ferrante $d New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] $z 9780231553599 $w (DLC) 2020046757 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=871F48288FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search