La frantumaglia

"You know that thing about the notes of a piece running through your head, and then, when you start singing it, the song is totally different from the one that obsessed you? Or when you have a street corner very much in your mind but you don't know where is it? To give these fragments a name, I use a word that belongs to my mother: Frantumaglia. They are bits and pieces that come from no one knows where and they make noise, they even bother..." Ferrante commented with his editor, Sandra Ozzola in the spring of 2015. "Frantumaglia" are the pieces that furnish Elena Ferrante's laboratory since she began to write, at the beginning of the 90s, until today, when critics and the public acclaim this figure as a contemporary classic. Reading this book is like opening the drawers of her table and looking at how and why Ferrante first wrote the three Chronicles of Heartbreak novels and then the splendid "Dos friends" saga. The text is made up of letters to her editors, interviews and passionate dialogues with privileged readers, who have gotten to the bottom of Ferrante's writing and have understood the "width" of it. Childhood also appears, the cities dear to Elena, her storehouse of memories..., in short, everything necessary to make up the portrait of a great author.