Yeah, good quotes from the article:
“Ferrante’s books are, it’s worth remembering, significantly about women’s negotiation of the public and private realm, and about the violence and surveillance women routinely experience.”
" It is significant that Ferrante’s ‘unmasking’ has occurred in the context of tiresome debates about whether she is really a woman or, in fact, a man. This persistent preoccupation is suggestive of the tendency to measure a writer’s literary worth in relation not just to the work, but also to other markers: of gender, race, class. The urge to uncover the ‘real’ Ferrante enacts an imperative to locate her in these systems – and finally, perhaps, to decide on her literary significance."
“Gatti has hunted Ferrante down from a feeling of entitlement to ‘unmask’ a woman, a belief that women never have a right to privacy – that women are essentially publicly owned creatures – and an urge to deliberately destroy an artist’s and a woman’s attempt to create conditions for sanity in a misogynistic world. He’s done so, what’s more, indulgently, with no compelling result – merely a sorry reflection on literary journalism.”
