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Elena Ferrante is the pen-name of an Italian novelist whose true identity is not publicly known. Though heralded as the most important Italian novelist of her generation, she has kept her identity secret since the publication of her first novel in 1992. ==Career== Ferrante is the author of a half dozen novels, the best known of which is ''Days of Abandonment'' (''I giorni dell'abbandono''). Her "Neapolitan Novels", a series about two perceptive and intelligent girls from Naples who try to create lives for themselves within a violent and stultifying culture, consist of ''My Brilliant Friend'', ''The Story of a New Name'' (2013), ''Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay'' (2014), and ''The Story of the Lost Child'', which was nominated for the Strega Prize, an Italian literary award.〔() 〕 Two of Ferrante's novels have been turned into films. ''Troubling Love'' (''L'amore molesto'') became the feature film ''Nasty Love'' directed by Mario Martone, while ''The Days of Abandonment'' became a film of the same title directed by Roberto Faenza. In her nonfiction book ''Fragments'' (''La frantumaglia'' 2003), Ferrante speaks of her experiences as a writer. Ferrante holds that "books, once they are written, have no need of their authors." Speculation about Ferrante's identity is rife. In an article for ''The New Yorker'' James Wood pointed out that in her written correspondence with journalists Ferrante has referred to herself as a mother, implying that she is indeed a woman. The first appearance of her work in English was the publication of a short story entitled "Delia's Elevator," translated by Adria Frizzi in the anthology ''After the War'' (2004).〔''(After the War: A Collection of Short Fiction by Postwar Italian Women'' ). New York: Italica Press, 2004.〕 It narrates the movements of the title character on the day of her mother's burial, particularly her return to her safe retreat in the old elevator in the apartment building where she grew up. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elena Ferrante」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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