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Incidental inventions / Elana Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein ; illustrations by Andrea Ucini.

Van Pelt Library PQ4866.E6345 I5813 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ferrante, Elena, author.
Contributor:
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.
Ucini, Andrea, illustrator.
Standardized Title:
Invenzione occasionale. English
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.
Newspapers.
Italian literature--Translations into English.
Italian literature.
Physical Description:
117 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2019.
Summary:
"The exercise ends here: I gave myself a year, and the year is up." With these words, Elena Ferrante bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian newspaper. For a full year, she wrote an article each week, the subjects of which had been suggested by Guardian editors, making the writing process a form of prolonged interlocution.
Contents:
Collisions, 18 March 2019
The first time, 20 January 2018
Fears, 27 January 2018
Keeping a diary, 3 February 2018
The end, 10 February 2018
The false and the true, 17 February 2018
Linguistic nationality, 24 February 2018
Laughter, 3 March 2018
Pregnant, 10 March 2018
Odious women, 17 March 2018
Daughters, 24 March 2018
The exclamation point, 31 March 2018
The only true name, 7 April 2018
The male story of sex, 14 April 2018
Trembling, 21 April 2018
Women friends and acquaintances, 28 April 2018
Digging, 5 May 2018
Writing that urges, 12 May 2018
Addictions, 19 May 2018
Insomnia, 26 May 2018
The pleasure of learning, 2 June 2018
Discontent, 9 June 2018
Winners and losers, 16 June 2018
Bad feelings, 22 June 2018
Ellipses, 30 June 2018
Works of art, 7 July 2018
The deluge of news, 14 July 2018
Literary novelty, 21 July 2018
Lies, 28 July 2018
Confessing, 4 August 2018
Clean breaks, 18 August 2018
Mothers, 25 August 2018
At the movies, 1 September 2018
Happy childhoods, 8 September 2018
Interviews, 15 September 2018
Love forever, 22 September 2018
No reason, 29 September 2018
Creative freedom, 6 October 2018
Plants, 13 October 2018
Leave-taking, 20 October 2018
Women who write, 27 October 2018
Stereotyped, 3 November 2018
The book and the film, 10 November 2018
Dying young, 17 November 2018
Jealousy, 24 November 2018
Not enough, 1 December 2018
The female version, 8 December 2018
Poetry and prose, 15 December 2018
This is me, 22 December 2018
Black skies, 29 December 2018
Stories that instruct, 5 January 2019
The last time, 12 January 2019.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781609455583
1609455584
OCLC:
1097960412

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