Particularly convincing for him: Payments from the publishing house to Ms. Raja rose sharply in 2014 and 2015, when the Neapolitan novels became international best sellers. The American novelist Jennifer Weiner, a vocal critic of what she sees as bias against women in publishing, wrote on Twitter: “Q’s about work/life balance. In France, revealing Ms. Ferrante’s identity was generally seen as rude, not sexist. “I am already nostalgic for the unnamed Elena Ferrante,” the commentator Michele Serra wrote in La Repubblica. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino partly attributes the outcry to readers’ investment in Ms. Ferrante’s anonymity, which seems a political act against a culture obsessed with image.

Source: New York Times October 09, 2016 17:26 UTC