uncovered cases of corruption at the United Nations, the intricacies of the investment Bank JPMorgan Chase in dubious transactions, and the existence of secret networks, refugee flows of money. Now has turned to the Italian investigative journalist Claudio Gatti, a literary mystery: the true identity of the best-selling author, Elena Ferrante.
On Sunday, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper”, the Italian economic journal “Il Sole 24 Ore”, the “New York Times” and the French Website “mediapart published” at the same time a Story of Gatti and his Team. The Investigative Reporter wants to have found out that the author behind the Pseudonym Elena Ferrante is, which is reminiscent of the great Italian writer Elsa Morante. It’s supposed to be in Rome in 1953-born Translator, Anita Raja, wife of the writer Domenico Starnone, who had also stood as well as the possible identity of Elena Ferrante suspected.
The Phantom behind the phenomenon
Elena Ferrante is a world-wide literary phenomenon, her four-volume Naples-Saga “My brilliant friend” made her a Star in the Literary scene. While she was yet a Phantom. In the Original from 2011 to 2014, published, celebrated successes Ferrantes novels to two Friends in Europe and in the United States and sold millions of copies. A few weeks ago the first volume appeared in German Translation published by Suhrkamp Verlag. For weeks, he leads the “Spiegel” bestseller list, so far, a quarter of a million copies have been sold. The other volumes will follow next year.
The four novels spanning six decades of Italian postwar history, told from the point of view of the writer Elena Greco, who remembers the story of their friendship with the shoemaker’s daughter Lila: how they grew up in a working class suburb of Naples, about marriage, motherhood, divorce, to the mysterious Disappearance of the life-long friend. In the volumes of Ferrante of time presents history from a female point of view. So, she has built up a worldwide fan base. An adaptation as a TV series is already planned.
books don’t need authors more
the larger the Is, the more zealous journalists and Literaturbetriebsler searched for the real Person behind the Pseudonym Elena Ferrante. The author writes since its first publication in 1992, under a false name. In Interviews, they exist only in written Form, justified the with your winch to preservation of privacy, as well as the view that — Foucault-free according to the Michel – books don’t have authors more, once they are written. Nevertheless, it was more wanted by the author of the Neapolitan Saga, the last of the literary scholar Marcella Marmo has been called. And it was puzzled: Must Ferrante keep her identity a secret because of the Camorra? A man?<'s behind the Pseudonym might/p>
in Particular, this suspicion would be an irony of history. Thus, the most famous works that were written under a Pseudonym originate, however, mostly of women who had to publish under men’s names. One of the most famous examples are the British Brontë sisters, to date, the most widely read authors of the 19th century. Century. Charlotte, Emily and Anne published their works to life under male pseudonyms so that they would be taken by the Victorian society seriously. Only her brother Branwell was able to publish under his real name.
Today it is mostly famous authors who publish under a Pseudonym, the pressure to succeed to avoid, or to decouple the quality of your texts from the cult of personality. Stephen King wrote several novels under the name Richard Bachman, and “Harry Potter”author J. K. Rowling published a crime novel as Robert Gailbraith. Long as these pseudonyms were not secret, while Elena it Ferrante managed to stay for decades undetected. So who is Elena Ferrante? Gatti refers in its revelation of history mainly on the Numbers.
your girlfriend Christa Wolf
Anita Raja is connected, according to Gatti closely with the publishing house Edizioni e/o, the distributes Ferrantes books in Italy, she translated for a long time German literature for the house. Today, she is officially as a freelance Translator for the publishing house. Gatti wants to have found out that she was the main beneficiary of the increase in the income of the publisher to the success of Ferrantes books. According to an internal source, the Transfers of the publishing house of the Raja were 2015 compared to the year-on-year surge in the success of the novels. Raja and her husband purchased real estate in Rome and in Tuscany with a million value. With the low income of a Translator, you would not have to pay more.
in addition to the economic facts Gatti called the personal and literary evidence to speak for Anita Raja as the true identity of Ferrante. A trail leads to Germany. Rajas mother born in Worms as daughter of a Jewish Polish family. You fled from before the Holocaust to Italy, and married a Neapolitan. Daughter Anita has a passion for German literature, as a Translator, she specialized in East German writers and to set up the edited texts by Christa Wolf, they have a close friendship.
Elena, Gatti, was aunt of the Name of Anita Rajas, while “Nino”, was a Protagonist in “My brilliant friend”, the nickname of her husband, Domenico Starnone. The heroine of the novel series of strips by libraries and attended the elite University Scuola Normale in Pisa. Raja was for many years Director of the Bibliotheca Europea in Rome, and her daughter had enrolled exactly at this University. Ferrante announced in the “mirror” that you wanted to write more, should be their identity revealed. It would be a great loss for literature. the Inga Barthels
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