Between the Lines

Frantumaglia, a new collection of her interviews, emails to her publisher, and occasional writing, brings us no closer to finding out who Elena Ferrante is, or explaining her work through her biography. What the collection does show is how Ferrante pulled away from a male-dominated literary tradition by using what is most powerful in women’s writing, and what it means to form a self.

Laura Marsh reviews Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante.