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A brilliant portrait of the ties of motherhood, a gem of contemporary literature by the great Elena Ferrante, the author who has fascinated over 20 million readers in 42 countries and is the greatest enigma of current literature Brought to the big screen under the direction o...
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The Lost Daughter
A brilliant portrait of the ties of motherhood, a gem of contemporary literature by the great Elena Ferrante, the author who has fascinated over 20 million readers in 42 countries and is the greatest enigma of current literature Brought to the big screen under the direction of Maggie Gyllenhaal, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Ed Harris, and Paul Mescal, nominated for 3 Academy Awards "Ferrante is a born storyteller, as extraordinary and addictive as my beloved John Irving, a classic writer in the wonderful sense of the word." Often, a great journey into our darkest side begins with a meaningless gesture. Leda is a long-divorced English literature professor, dedicated to her daughters and her work. When they move in with their father, instead of experiencing the nostalgia and loneliness she expected, Leda suddenly feels liberated and decides to take a vacation in a small coastal town. But the days of apparent calm end when we see this middle-aged, discerning woman fleeing the beach with a doll in her arms. Page after page, a pleasant seaside break turns into the portrait of a stubborn and lonely woman, assailed by questions that lead her to risk everything. In The Lost Daughter, Elena Ferrante's most beloved novel, madness walks hand in hand with absolute lucidity: nothing is superfluous when a meaningless gesture brings us closer to great literature. Critics have said: "When I first read this book, I was stunned by its sincerity. It was an electrifying experience [...]. Furthermore, it's a wonderful dramatic story. When I finished, alone in my room, I dropped the book and let my imagination soar. What if, instead of reading it, you could hear these things out loud, if you could see them sitting next to your mother, your husband, or even your daughter? I thought it could be something radical to bring this book to the screen." "I didn't think I would play a character like Leda. I don't think I remember a woman like her, portrayed with such honesty, on screen. [#] Elena Ferrante's women are truthful characters." "Don't be fooled. The biggest mystery is not who Elena Ferrante is or isn't [...]: the mystery is her writing and her evocative power. A torrential, magnetic, unstoppable phenomenon." "It's best to accept the game as the author presents it: what matters is not her face, nor the details of her life. What matters is her literature stripped of everything that is not the text itself." "Ferrante masterfully handles the elements that make her strong and that she enhances in her wonderful narrative." "On my nightstand are Virginia Woolf's diaries, Chekhov's short stories, and Ferrante's novels." "I'm a fan of her novels, which address in great detail friendship as we women understand it." "Whenever I enjoy a book, I give it as a gift, and now I would choose one of Elena Ferrante's novels." "It has captured me. It has had a great impact on me." "Elena Ferrante's novels have kept me glued to my armchair, reading and celebrating pages where emotion is never trivial." "When a reader enters these pages, she begins to feel things she has lived, suffered, enjoyed, and she feels them recounted for the first time from another place, far from clichés, from ideology, from militancy." "The most transcendent revelation of European narrative." |
Editorial: DEBOLSILLO Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 152 Empastado: Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español |
