she wanted to never give your name. Then the Hype came, and all wanted to know: Who is Elena Ferrante? Who hides behind the Pseudonym? Ferrantes book “My brilliant friend” has caused international an incredible enthusiasm – both for readers as well as Critics. With the excitement came a desire to always be stronger, the “true identity” of Ferrante to find out.
Now, the investigative journalist Claudio wants to have found Gatti finally, who is the author Elena Ferrante “really” is. His Research appears in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper”, the Italian newspaper “Il Sole 24″, “The New York Review of Books”, and the French Investigative Website “Mediapart”.
In his Research found out Gatti, Anita Raja Elena Ferrante or Elena Ferrante, Anita Raja. He is, he writes, has the existence of internal documents from Edizioni e/o, the small Italian publishing house, the Ferrantes books published and in the case of the Raja as a Translator works. Rajas fee has risen with the success of the Ferrante books. This let to the Transfers to see the Gatti.
he Also looked in the basic books and seen: Raja as her husband, Domenico Starnone have bought apartments in Rome and Tuscany – “in one of the most beautiful streets of Rome”, “in an expensive area”.
but It should also give content notes: One of the heroines in Ferrantes book Elena is just like Rajas beloved aunt. And the nickname of the Rajas man is “Nino”, an important male figure in the novel. All in All, this is a complete evidence of history, which seems to be Gatti also aware of it. At the beginning, he writes: “After months of research, it seems now possible for us to reveal the true identity of the writer.” Or: “she’s obviously the main beneficiary, by Elena Ferrantes success increase in the income of the publisher.” Obviously. Seems.
the search for The Phantom
From the publisher there is no information. In a phone conversation with the publisher Sandro Ferri says the journalist Gatti: “If you want to write an article that will reveal Ferrantes identity, you should know that we will not answer your question, the information will be ready.”
The Name is Anita Raja does not appear, however, for the first Time in search of the true Elena Ferrante. 2014 were in her Name and the Name of her husband. Both denied at the time. The search went on. Constantly new people were added or discarded from the list: the Journalist Goffredo Fofi, a kind of writer’s collective, the Edizioni-publishing house couple Sandra Ozzola and Sandro Ferri. In the spring of this year, all were in agreement: It is only the Professor Marcella can be Marmo.
A Passage from the writing led MIRROR-Interview with Elena Ferrante in August, reads current the each::
MIRROR: Have actually tried to investigative journalists or detectives find out, who are you?
Ferrante: I hope that I never do with people, the time and effort to such futile waste.
SPIEGEL: do you Fear the Moment of her unmasking?
Ferrante: no, not in the Slightest. I would simply stop publishing.
it Should be Ferrante Raja so really, the writer, Elena, this could mean an end to it. Provided that Ferrante told the truth.
“I have nothing against lying, I will find them for the life useful,” she writes in her non-fiction book “La frantumaglia”. This sentence and that Ferrante told a Italo-Calvino-anecdote to lie, Gatti, in order to legitimize his Research: “With the announcement that they will occasionally lie, seems to have been the author of your right to be abandoned, to disappear behind their books. Rather, it has called for critics and journalists to out and find your true identity.”
That sounds like a perfidious argument. As if Ferrante to the schnitzel would have been invited to hunt. The author herself could have the curiosity by several Interviews cheered, but stressed in each, the importance of your privacy and anonymity. Sometimes they argued literature in theory, sometimes with shyness, sometimes with the Hyper-media society. But they always insisted on their privacy, and to let their books speak for themselves.
Why is it so important, who hides behind Elena Ferrante? What is the point? Anita Raja is put behind Elene Ferrante. It makes the books more exciting? Better? Worse? For the literary discourse of intensive? Now readers can transfer and the personal biography of Anita Raja – as far as is known – on their books. And here the old dispute between the relationship of the work and the author begins to boil again, was never actually gone. Identity manifests itself, however, is not necessarily a name or fragmentary biographical references.
Ferrante has written with her “Neapolitan Saga” wonderfully dense books, with a historically-savvy image of Italy, a cooling-factual style, and a friendship story. She has also managed to bring the Italian international to the conversation – and motivated with a politically-more splitter.
Until now. Hopefully Elena Ferrante has lied in the Interview.
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