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Around 2020, Ferrante (Neapolitan Quartet) was invited by the University of Bologna to give three lectures, discussing her work as a writer, her poetics, her narrative technique, "or anything else she wants [that] would be of interest to a broad, non-specialist audience." Because of Ferrante's insistence on anonymity—and the pandemic—the lectures were read by an actress. Her first essay, "Pain and Pen," explores her desire to write (she was a voracious, sop...Log In or Sign Up to Read More