Dny opuštění - CDmp3 (Čte Lucie Žáčková)

"One April afternoon, just a few minutes after lunch, my husband announced that he was leaving me." With these words begins the novel Days of Abandonment by the Italian author writing under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante (author of the bestseller My Brilliant Friend), a story of a woman whose life is turned upside down in an instant. In Elena Ferrante's second novel, as in all later ones, the main character is a woman swept away by the whirlwind of her emotions and distant memories. Olga, a writer living in Turin who has sacrificed her career for her family, is seemingly inexplicably abandoned by her husband, leaving her to drown in doubts and false hopes of his return. At first, Olga tries to live as she has until now and remain calm at all costs, but the memory from her childhood in Naples of a woman abandoned by her husband, whom she herself nicknames Poor Thing, constantly creeps into her mind. She does not want to resemble her at any cost, but as the reasons for her husband's departure are revealed, she sinks deeper into despair, depression, and an inability to care for her family. Elena Ferrante has managed to depict her heroine's fall to the bottom with urgent intensity and has detailed the profound swings between apparent inner calm and hysteria that accompanied Olga's transformation from a dependent woman into...