My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante

General Resources:

• Elena Ferrante Wikipedia entry 

• "Where to start with Elena Ferrante: a guide to her best books" from The Booker Prizes

• "Previously on the Neapolitan Novels: Your Study Guide to Elena Ferrante" from Electric Lit

Media:

PODCASTS

• "Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘My Brilliant Friend’" from New York Times's Book Review

• "'My Brilliant Friend' by Elena Ferrante" from Slate's Audio Book Club

VIDEOS

• "Ann Goldstein: Meet Elena Ferrante’s Translator" from Edinburgh International Book Festival

• "On Elena Ferrante: Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein" from The Center for Fiction

• "Ariadne and the Minotaur: Symbolic & Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's 'My Brilliant Friend'" by Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College

• "The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins - Separating the Fad from Substance" from Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University

Articles:

• • The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - "My Brilliant Friend" from The New York Times

  • "Elena Ferrante: the global literary sensation nobody knows" by Meghan O'Rourke for The Guardian

  • "No. 1 book of the century, ‘My Brilliant Friend’, is subject of UC Berkeley research, courses" by Sarah Fullerton for UC Berkeley News

  • "The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s 'Neapolitan Quartet'" by Ian J. Battaglia for Chicago Review of Books

  • "'Wade Into the Muck With Me.' On Reading and Re-Reading Elena Ferrante" by Gina Frangello for Literary Hub

  • "Women on the Verge: The fiction of Elena Ferrante" by James Wood for The New Yorker

INTERVIEWS

• • "Art of Fiction No. 228 – Elena Ferrante" - The Paris Review

  • "Elena Ferrante: ‘We don’t have to fear change, what is other shouldn’t frighten us'" - The Guardian

  • "In a rare interview, Elena Ferrante describes the writing process behind the Neapolitan novels" by Didier Jacob for Los Angeles Times

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

• • "Comparative Demonologies: Dostoevsky and Ferrante on the Boundaries of the Self" - Yuri Corrigan

  • "Melodrama or Metafiction? Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels" - Olivia Santovetti

  • "Undoing Feminism- The Neapolitan Novels of Elena Ferrante" - Stefania Lucamante