Elena Ferrante in the Guardian

[Ekphrasis]

My finger is poised over the delete subscription button currently but this column caught my eye.

I WANT to share it on fb and say, yes but the rest of you fuckers (I'm looking at you OJ) at the guardian are doing exactly this!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/17/elena-ferrante-even-after-century-of-feminism-cant-be-ourselves?CMP=fb_gu

I just wonder if it's a thinly (or thickly) veiled comment on a range of current issues and events including self id etc?

I thought I'd let more knowledgeable people help me with some analysis!

Especially this one...

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/10/elena-ferrante-nothing-comparable-joy-bringing-another-creature-into-world

There was a brief thread about the second one. Most posters liked it; I didn't. As I said on the first thread I don't really get this "I'm so fantastic, I grew another creature" view of women kind.

I don't like her books (or to be more accurate I was equal parts bored and irritated by the 100 or so pages I ploughed through in My Brilliant Friend)

The first article leaves me cold. It is just another rehash of isn't it absolutely rubbish being a woman and I'm certainly not going to support or not criticise another woman just because she is a woman.