What Is so Brilliant About Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Series?
5 min readMar 10, 2019
Everything.
Since publication of the first book in 2011, the Neapolitan Novels have made their way into the highest echelon of modern literature. The tetralogy was written by Elena Ferrante, a pseudonymous author who was said to be born in Naples, Italy in the early 1940s.
