The City and Its Unknowns - Elena Ferrante's Naples (Swiss Press Text 2019, by Birgit Schmid) - Swiss Press Award
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2019
Birgit Schmid
Elena Ferrante, the author everyone reads but no one knows, was everywhere for months. So I wanted to travel to the origins of her novels to trace this literary mystery. When, during my research, I came across an old woman who had spent her entire life in the "rione," where the heroines also grew up, I had found the gateway to my story.
