Writers and Literary Critics about Ferrante’s “The Story of a New Name” novel (video in Armenian)
The most mysterious Italian writer Elena Ferrante in her Neapolitan Novels tells the story of the friendship of Elena and Lila for more than 60 years. The events begin in the 1950s in the suburbs of Naples. In early 2021, Newmag translated and published t
Renowned writers, actors and directors read Ferrante’s novels. According to critics, the novel is the best work dedicated to friendship. According to them, Ferrante's 4 books are reminiscent of Balzac’s literary style revealing the inner world of women.
"Elena Ferrante's The Story of a New Name. Book two in her Naples novels. Two words: Read it." Ann Hood, author of the “The Book that Matters Most” book
"The truest evocation of a complex and lifelong friendship between women I've ever read." Emily Gould, author of Friendship
"Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!" John Waters, director
"Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk. In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now -- one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman." Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review
"The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece. I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled.." Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland
"The feverish speculation about the identity of Elena Ferrante betrays an understandable failure of imagination: it seems impossible that right now somewhere someone sits in a room and draws up these books. Palatial and heartbreaking beyond measure, the Neapolitan novels seem less written than they are revealed. One simply surrenders. When the final volume appears--may that day never come!--they're bound to be acknowledged as one of the most powerful works of art, in any medium, of our age." Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction
"Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing." The New Yorker
"The Story of a New Name, like its predecessor, is fiction of the very highest order." Independent on Sunday
"Ferrante can do a woman's interior dialogue like no one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly blunt." Booklist
The second part of the Neapolitan novel “The Story of a New Name” sparked huge interest in the world. People read the book in over 50 countries.
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