Elena Ferrante writes for PEN Atlas about the impact of reading Madame Bovary, the subjects that recur throughout her work – motherhood, family life, identity – and the way that Neopolitan Italian and its kinship with French reawakened painful childhood memories.
PEN Atlas: Elena Ferrante on ‘Madame Bovary’ and childhood

RT @englishpen: PEN Atlas: Elena Ferrante on ‘Madame Bovary’ and childhood: Elena Ferrante writes for PEN Atlas about… http://t.co/SDr92U…