Geniální přítelkyně BOX 1-4 – Ferrante Elena (2024)

The tetralogy My Brilliant Friend has captivated readers almost all over the world and has garnered well-deserved attention from literary critics. ***** Now in a gift package, in an attractive cover, in cardboard bindings, and at a discounted price. ***** The Neapolitan peripheral district of Luzzatti (though its name is never mentioned in the text), the 1950s. It is here and then that the story of one female friendship begins. ***** Its narrator is Elena, who, as an old woman, recalls her life, which, as far back as her memory goes, has always been influenced by the strong personality of the brilliant Lila. Yet she is also a key figure in Lila's fate; in her eyes, she is the brilliant friend. The cornerstone of their complicated relationship is the struggle to survive in a man's world, whose conventional boundaries are as constraining for them as the boundaries of their neighborhood full of hypocrisy and violence. In the novel, the reader becomes acquainted not only with the two protagonists but also with the entire microcosm of the Neapolitan district, intertwined with a dense web of conventions and passions. Although the narrator guides us through the development of Italian society in the second half of the 20th century, the central theme of the entire series remains the friendship of two distinctly different heroines, portrayed with a merciless…