What better way to travel than to live a story in a book, written by someone who can take you down those cobblestone streets as if you were there in person, and then personally traverse those streets yourself… making the book come to life before your very eyes. This is something very important to us here at Zemii Group. Today is no exception. In today’s article, we are going to walk you through the streets of Naples as seen through the novelist, Elena Ferrante, whose real name is currently speculated as Anita Raja.
Elena Ferrante
Who is this mysterious Elena Ferrante and why is she so interesting? Ferrante has written only a handful of novels, and yet their success is not to be dismissed. The frequent setting of her books is in Naples, Italy. The context in all of them surrounds the realities of what it means to be a woman in a culture that has set limits on what is expected of women, and what it is like to be a woman living in these limits. One well explained example of how this plays …
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