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That's where the confusion kicks in. I'm sure in good faith you believe Elena Ferrante is a woman, but we don't even know if the books have been written by a s
by lostjohnny 8y ago
That's where the confusion kicks in.
I'm sure in good faith you believe Elena Ferrante is a woman, but we don't even know if the books have been written by a single person or if each book has a single author...
It's an interesting marketing phenomenon nonetheless, but we are not looking, IMHO, at someone writing under a pseudonym for personal reasons.
We are looking at the absence as a marketing tool, that amplifies the curiosity around the product.
It would be like talking about Hawthorne Abendsen as a real author.
- Veen 8y agoIt’s interesting to think about whether it really matters. The text is the same either way. If you judge a book on the words on the page, it doesn’t matter much how they came to be there, so criticising ‘her’ work on different factors seems irrelevant.
- lostjohnny 8y agoThat's my point. We should talk about the books and not about anything else. My first answer was to someone who wrote, and I quote > I don't blame any writer for wanting to be anonymous. In today's world, your race, gender, sexual orientation, age, hair color, clothing style, political affiliation, birthplace, and any other discernible group identity will be used to analyze, market, and categorize your work into the appropriate tribalist-identity. There's no evidence that this is the case, in fact the evidence point to the exact opposite direction.