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dipolos · 1 year

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L'amica geniale (My Brilliant Friend) (2018)

#l'amica geniale #my brilliant friend #stills

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asavnazstory · 8 months

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#l’amica geniale #my brilliant friend #elena greco #nino sarratore #lila cerullo #elena ferrante

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mostlyghostie · 1 year

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Colourful new commission. Another showing for Good Omens which pops up on about every third list I get sent! I like varying the covers I use for it and I particularly like this one with a little relaxing Crowley

#my art #artists on tumblr #books #booklr #bookstack #good omens #the song of achilles #my brilliant friend #the house in the cerulean sea #howls moving castle

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katarinareads · 8 months

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07/09/2023

croatia was wonderful <3

i am slowly getting back into the realities of the approaching semester :’)) expect your regularly scheduled studyblr content soon!

#mine #studyblr #books #literature #aesthetic #sea #ocean view #sea view #sea aesthetic #seaside #elena ferrante #my brilliant friend #photography #croatia #visit croatia

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sundaynightfilms · 2 years

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L’Amica Geniale, Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay

#l'amica geniale #my brilliant friend

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flowerytale · 10 months

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Elena Ferrante, from L'amica Geniale (My Brilliant Friend), translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

#elena ferrante #l'amica geniale #my brilliant friend #neapolitan novels #novel #lit #literature #italian literature #words #typo #typography #good #evil #*

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literatureaesthetic · 5 months

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thinking about elena ferrante and the neapolitan quartet and the line — 'if nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.'

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metamorphesque · 2 years

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― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]

#elena ferrante #my brilliant friend #the story of a new name #quotes #literature #selfhood #translated literature #dark academia #dark academia aesthetics #romantic academia

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chernychnyi · 7 months

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dissolving margins

#my brilliant friend #elena greco #lila cerullo #art tag

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animula-vagula-blandula · 8 months

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-La figlia oscura, Elena Ferrante

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mistressaccost · 2 years

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on childhood friendships and summer and saving each other and never being able to go back

anne with an e (2017-2019) / the body by stephen king / the outsiders (1983) / the goldfinch (2019) / my brilliant friend by elena ferrante / little women (2019) / stranger things (2016-) / jane eyre by charlotte brontë / it chapter two (2019) / never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

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susansontag · 2 months

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it's incredibly transparent that mainstream reviewers of the neapolitan novels (my brilliant friend series by elena ferrante) explain the divide between lila and elena in terms of elena having discipline, yet lila was somehow just too unfocused, pessimistic, or chaotic to be able to achieve her goals. some of them cast lila as a villain that needs to be contained by elena in writing; both a cruel misreading of lila's character but also one that tries to make elena complicit in seeing her friend as the antagonist of their story, something I don't for a second believe.

liberal press seriously can't handle, is unable, to admit, that lila cerullo didn't go on to become a famous writer or else lift herself up by her bootstraps because her family didn't care and couldn't afford her education, so she was forced to stop after elementary school? her father throws her out of a window when she complains. the point wasn't that she wasn't crafty enough, it's that you can be crafty and brilliant and if the opportunities aren't available to you it doesn't matter. lila potentially could have become the big boss of her neighbourhood if she'd seriously wanted to, but she wasn't interested in gaining power by such illegitimate means, she wanted to be better.

elena was dedicated and worked incredibly hard, much harder than those who were more fortunate had to, certainly. but she was also lucky. various things converged for her in such a way that she was able to leave the poverty of her childhood and create a different life for herself, and this wasn't because she was somehow better or more capable than lila, or because lila had deficiencies of character. to seriously read it as though that was the case, as though this was what ferrante was trying to tell us, is a reading so obviously false and cynical that it's bizarre these people wouldn't feel shameful publishing it. fuck the working class, they're mostly just lazy and incapable, right? oh but elena's alright, she has nice manners.

#like??????#my brilliant friend #neapolitan novels #elena ferrante #elena greco #lila cerullo #moth.txt

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delistravaganza · 8 months

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This is not mine but I had to bring this over from Twitter, it was too good not to share.

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[Image description: Capture from TikTok showing Lila and Elena's faces from My Brilliant Friend. It's one of the promo pictures of season 3: Lila is leaning towards Lenù as if to smell her hair or face (?), while Lenù is looking defiantly at the camera. User Jonathan Heart asks: "Are they lovers?". User secret brittany, the creator, answers: "Worse".]

#my brilliant friend #l'amica geniale #lila and lenù #those promo pictures of these two sniffing each other's faces were...#something

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cinematic-literature · 9 months

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