Elena Ferrante is an Amazing Author

The most often story heard about the author Elena Ferrante is one that includes her absence from the world as a writer. The Italian author creates works of art that are sharp, swift and produce feelings of worry or anxiety, like in her three novels, “Days of Abandonment,” Troubling Love,” and “The Lost Daughter.”

The fourth novel in the Neapolitan series is another masterpiece, “Künstlerroman” is a story about fury and sustained passion. The story revolves around to women from mid-20th century Naples, Elena and Lila, who fight for class, respect, and education, and in the end become lovers, wives and mothers.

Ferrante is well-known as a brilliant writer, who is subtly subversive, creating novels that can’t be ignored. In fact, she holds that as soon as a book is written they really have no need for the authors. It is one of the reasons she chooses to use a pseudonym and remain anonymous.

Although there has been a ton of speculation about who Ferrante really is, she has been able to keep her true identity secret for over two decades. However, some correspondence with her editors might help the world figure out who she is.

The feminine name Elena is a cognate of Helen, as well as, a variant transcription of the Russian name Yelena. Yelena is the Russian form of Helen, which is the English version of the Greek name Helene that was probably taken from the word helene that means “corposant” or “torch”; or might even be related to the word selene that means “moon”.