Elena Ferrante - Blog Posts

probably will finish in the margins by ferrante today.

i need to choose another but it's hard when you have many clarice books in your shelf and not think about picking one up.

i'm not doing ok since my birthday (feb 16th). it's raining a bit these days, so it makes my days better. thank god nature. 🌧🤍

also, it's time for restart studying: manifesting.

“I missed only Lila, Lila who didn’t answer my letters. I was afraid of what was happening to her, good or bad, in my absence. It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.”

— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

L'amica Geniale 2.08 / The Story of a New Name

me on my annual mbf series reread

snoopy reads my brilliant friend

L'AMICA GENIALE — ELENA FERRANTE ↳ a special poster for the wonderful and brilliant jo ( @dylanlila ) <33

Lila and the Men Around Her: A Means of Possession

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Credit: pictures on the left are from filmmaker Catherine Breillat’s interview at the Berlin Film Festival (originally found on justabore on TikTok)

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

—Marguerite Duras, The Lover.

MBF Characters As Quotes Pt. 2: Lila & Stefano

“‘I think there’s something about being a young woman that feels very murderous,’ she explained. ‘That’s was I was trying to get with a song like ‘Dream Girl Evil.’ It can be dangerous for people to think you’re incredibly nice. When you get, ‘You’re an angel,’ that seems like such a high place to fall from. When I see messy or violent or terribly behaved women, especially young women, there’s a liberation. To not have to try and survive by being good.’”

—Florence Welch on her song, ‘Dream Girl Evil.’

Mixing MBF and Mary Oliver is criminal, I’ll never get over these two 😢

“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver

GOD, WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME FERRANTE!

god.

Elena Ferrante

I love, love this answer so much

(Elena Ferrante)