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Honestly, L'amour harcelant ( L'amore moleste in Italian or Troubling Love in English) is not interesting title at all. But I'm into Ferrante these days, so I gave this one a try. And she got me.
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Somehow, memory is liquid in Elena Ferrante's story. She has the ability to infuse the memory of the past and the present and blended them with hidden clues that we can only understand with careful reading. The mother/daughter relationship is always a delicate subject to manage. Sometimes it's painful ...more
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Somehow, memory is liquid in Elena Ferrante's story. She has the ability to infuse the memory of the past and the present and blended them with hidden clues that we can only understand with careful reading. The mother/daughter relationship is always a delicate subject to manage. Sometimes it's painful ...more
Jun 23, 2021
Julie Griffin
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Troubling Love
Elena Ferrante
Mystery/Crime Fiction/Literary Fiction
An early book by the writer of the lush and beautiful Neopolitan books. This one follows a woman hitting thirty who barely tolerates her mother, who comes up on the train monthly from Naples to Rome to visit her. They share a complicated past with an abusive husband/father who paints trite tourist canvases. The woman waits for her mother on her latest trip, and other than two very strange phone calls, she hears nothing and her mot ...more
Elena Ferrante
Mystery/Crime Fiction/Literary Fiction
An early book by the writer of the lush and beautiful Neopolitan books. This one follows a woman hitting thirty who barely tolerates her mother, who comes up on the train monthly from Naples to Rome to visit her. They share a complicated past with an abusive husband/father who paints trite tourist canvases. The woman waits for her mother on her latest trip, and other than two very strange phone calls, she hears nothing and her mot ...more
3 stars for Ferrante's beautiful style, but only 2 stars for the strange and less than captivating story.
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Grammatically and syntactically this was at times hard to follow, and I struggled to stay connected. I think it might have something to do with Ferrante being a relatively new writer and perhaps her reflective of her new relationship with her translator. Some of the imagery is so powerful that it hits you on a deep level, and it was the imagery that kept me reading until the end. The Neapolitan series is vastly superior, but I would say Troubling Love is still worth reading.
Amalia walked into the sea and drowned. We are never quite sure if it was suicide or an accident. Delia, her eldest daughter now looks back on their relationship. Ferrante writes of troubling relationships: Mothers/Daughters, Husband/Wives, best friends. Violence, sex, and identity permeate Ferrante's works.
This is an intense short novel, but worth the read. I think what attracts me to Ferrante's novels is the raw emotion and the sense of place. ...more
This is an intense short novel, but worth the read. I think what attracts me to Ferrante's novels is the raw emotion and the sense of place. ...more
Jun 27, 2019
kora
marked it as to-read
Oct 10, 2024
Elizabeth Weltin
marked it as to-read
