![]() ![]() It isn’t enough for Lila to make herself disappear, Ferrante writes she has to “eliminate the entire life that she had left behind.” But Lila’s ambition backfires-she’s more present in those butchered snapshots with their glaring voids than she was in photographic form.Īggression and dominance saturate the Neapolitan novels as surely as alcohol suffuses limoncello, bitter and sharp. Lila doesn’t vanish, she doesn’t evaporate she erases herself, cutting her image out of family photographs as determinedly as she removes clothes from her closet. ![]() When Lila Cerullo disappears at the beginning of Elena Ferrante’s first Neapolitan novel, My Brilliant Friend, it’s not a passive act but a violent one. ![]()
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