fragments

Fragments (2016) is a collection of letters, interviews and essays by the Italian writer Elena Ferrante over the past 20 years. In the book, the author reveals his exploration of writing style and themes, and reflects on the self-doubt and breakthrough he experienced in the book. These dialogues wisely explain women and family, myth and culture, city and memory, and writer and reader. complicated relationship. Fragments is both a guide into Ferrante's literary world and an intellectual, clear and unwavering literary manifesto.

The whole book is divided into three volumes according to the age: the first part "Fragments 1991-2003" is the correspondence between the writer and the publisher, focusing on the secret relationship between the mother's body and writing in "Annoying Love", and also includes her and the director. The film adaptation of the novel has been carefully discussed, and it also includes some creative fragments of the writer that have never been published; the second part "Jigsaw Puzzle 2003-2007" includes the writer and director's discussion on the film adaptation of "Abandoned Days" Correspondence, and the different directions she explored in the first three novels; the third part "Letters 2011-2016" contains some of the written interviews the author has accepted since the publication of the "Naples Quartet", readers can get a glimpse of the author's understanding of the novel. , and a poignant look at the history and mandate of women's writing.

The title of this book "fragments" (frantumaglia) comes from the dialect vocabulary commonly used by the author's mother, which refers to the pain experienced by individuals who encounter contradictions and chaos, but the author develops it into his own literary concept and tries to release this in his many years of creation. The liberating power behind vocabulary: Writers must use this vortex-like power to face the risk of getting out of control, and to reach the real experience that makes themselves and readers strange.