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RMST 202 Literatures and Cultures of the Romance World II: Modern to Post-Modern
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‘We Were Girls Together’; A Review of My Brilliant Friend

Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older […]

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Thoughts on Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” The Brilliance of Life and Writing

After reading Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend”, a novel I found out late is the first in a four part series titled the “Neapolitan novels”, I found myself completely spellbound and enraptured by a novel in a way that I hadn’t been in a while. On its surface this feeling perplexed me, as I found […]

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