The central passages were originally conceived as a response to the Swedish publisher Brombergs, which, after acquiring the rights to “The Days of Abandonment,” decided not to publish it, on the ground that the behavior of Olga, the novel’s protagonist, toward her children was morally reprehensible.įrance for me-long, long before Paris-was Yonville-l’Abbaye, eight leagues from Rouen. The following essay was drawn from “Frantumaglia,” a collection of Elena Ferrante’s writings and interviews, translated by Ann Goldstein, which is out November 1st from Europa Editions. A 1905 illustration of Emma Bovary and her daughter Berthe in Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” Composition by Alfred de Richemont.
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