In 2017, the first TV series was created by Saverio Costanzo and co-produced by Rai Fiction, TimVision, Wildside and Fandango, taken from the novel, released on Italian and US screens in 2018 with Margherita Mazzucco in the role of Elena and Gaia Girace in the role of Lila. The story would not be the same without its backdrop: Naples is the third protagonist of the novel, with its fresco of voices, breathless contradictions and emotions. Their friendship is indissoluble: Elena and Lila blend and confuse with each other, complete and annihilate each other in a visceral bond of deep intelligence and intense feeling. Published in 2011, it was followed by three volumes: “ Story of a new name” in 2012, “ Those who leave and those who stay” in 2013 and finally “ The story of the lost child” in 2014.Įlena Ferrante’s tetralogy tells the life of Elena Greco and Raffaella Cerullo, respectively Lenù and Lila, born in the Rione, a district of Naples, from the 1950s to the 21st century. “ The brilliant friend” is Elena Ferrante‘s masterpiece novel.
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