My Brilliant Friend
h4. by Elena Ferrante
Started: Oct 15
Finished: —
This is similar to Plot. A coming of age tale. The limited perspective of a child.
whoa boy is that a wrong reading from the start. this book is almost nothing like a Roth novel. Then again the main character is the author herself. She often finds herself lacking words. And alive with the magical thinking of a child. In fact, she is a child. But what is her name?
10/27/24, 8:10:50 AM
- so far this is a story of the girls orbiting around Lila – who is the dominant personality in the neighborhood. The way other girls pick up her mannerisms and interests and adopt aspects of her aggressive personality.
- p.107: Elena very nearly tells Carmela the story of how she showed her breasts to Gino fro 10 lire. But refrains.
- p.108: “I soon had to admit that what I did by myself couldn’t excite me, only what Lila touched became important.s”
The story of a new name
#Reading
Aug 13 notes
The story of a new name
- the portrayal of male dominance feels shattering and familiar
- Lenu getting accustomed to living in the “luxury” of the apartment
“She seemed not to realize that her capacity to learn effortlessly rremained intact. But I knew.”
Lila: “because I’ve had it, it’s always the same story: inside something small there’s something even smaller that wants to leap out, and outside large there’s always something larger that wants to keep it a prisoner. I’m going to cook.
Aug 23 notes
Pp 642
Did I keep my feeling muted because I was frightened by the violence with shock, in fact, in my innermost self, I wanted things, people, praise, triumphs?
And…
Why, sooner or later, did I allays find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?
Those who leave and those who stay behind
Sat Nov 29 notes
Chapter 87
- beginning to have some ugly thoughts about Lila
She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the braches scribble on its face
The lost child
All the times Elena expresses fear over drafts and catching colds and kids being sweaty and being sick as a result of temperature changes
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