![]() ![]() The story goes on to cover more than 60 years of their lives as Elena tries to describe the mystery of Lila. It causes Elena to reflect on the early days of their friendship in dangerous but fascinating Naples, Italy, in the 1950s, when Elena and Lila are two very different girls at the top of their class. But deprivation gives details a snatched richness. Its narrator, Elena Greco, recalls her Neapolitan childhood and adolescence, in the late nineteen-fifties.The city of Elena’s childhood is a poor, violent place. Filmed in Italian, the eight-episode drama centers on elderly author Elena Greco, who learns that the most important friend in her life, Lila Cerullo, has disappeared without a trace. It’s a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman, apparently the first of a trilogy. "My Brilliant Friend" is the first in the series, and also the first to be adapted for television. Realistic characters at times but unbelievable all. But deprivation gives details a snatched richness But My Brilliant Friend is a bildungsroman in mono, not stereo we sense early on that Lila will stay trapped in her world, and that Elena, the writer, will get out In this beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal, it is hard to identify the moments when a current changes. ![]() Pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante has written four mega-popular Neapolitan novels that explore the complicated intensity of female friendship. Critics seem to rate this book with five stars, while readers give it a more valid rating of 3.5 stars. ![]()
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