Book 14: The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
I felt that I was inside a clamorous life and that everything might come apart because of a too piercing sentence, an ungentle movement of the body.
Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein. The Days of Abandonment (p. 7). (Function). Kindle Edition.
Every once in a while there comes across a writer who knows how to put words one after another to make a glistening thread of life. It seems as though Ferrante is one of them. The Days of Abandonment is the story, and mental vomit of a woman who is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Despite the narrator of TDOA being an uninteresting, plain woman with almost nothing going for her, the writing kept me hooked and engaged through to the end.
Perhaps women in stories who have been abandoned by their husbands do not have to be interesting, and neither does Olga, but the plot leaves much to be desired. I didn’t care much for the woman, her children, and neither the husband. Their dog, I felt sad for, yes. But I cared so much for the writing, the unrestrained words that fell like an unspooled pearl necklace.
Despite not continuing the Neapolitan novels after the first book My Brilliant Friend, I continue to think of the characters and the setting. Some time in the future I hope to pick up her next novel once again, Here’s to Elena Ferrante.
đŸŒŸ 3.5/5
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