It was like slipping into old shoes that they keep you grounded.

A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. 'They were so coherent that adapting them was easy. Series list: Neopolitan (4 Books) by Elena Ferrante. If that happens the credit will not be ours, but the brilliance of the books. Elena uses a pen to order things and I had to use a camera.'īut he said he hoped 'readers take up the film at the point where they put down the book. 'You can see in the emails she had with Saverio (Costanzo, the director) that her confidence in him grew as it went on,' he told reporters after the first two episodes were shown at the festival.Ĭostanzo said that although he used the first book 'as a compass, I had to change the order of events, and lump things together. 'She followed the project very closely from the beginning, like a kind of supervisor,' Piccolo added. 'We can't tell you who Elena Ferrante is because we don't know ourselves despite the fact that we worked with her. The novel follows Leda, a woman who is spending her vacations on an Italian beach, and becomes obsessed with a nearby Italian family, especially with a woman and her young daughter. Set in post-war Naples, My Brilliant Friend introduces us to the fiery Lila and our bookish narrator, Elena. In 2006, Ferrante published her third novel, The Lost Daughter (in the original version, La Figlia Oscura). My Brilliant Friend Let’s start with Book 1 in the Neapolitan Quartet, which is now a critically acclaimed HBO series.

Screenwriter Francesco Piccolo said Ferrante - who has tried to keep her real identity secret - was 'very close to the project from the beginning', even choosing director Saverio Costanzo. Below are 9 essential works by Elena Ferrante that will live in your thoughts long after you’ve turned the last page.

Elena ferrante book order