There are stories that grab you from the first pages, even if you resist. This happened to me with the saga "Two Friends" by Elena Ferrante. (I will explain the issue of the author's identity another time; for now, I want to focus on the novels and what they have awakened in me. I wrote "Even if you resist" because that is what I did: in 2016, when The great friend, the first novel in the series, was published by M ico, preceded by the reputation of being a best seller in Italy and Spain. My prejudice against books that sell a lot set off alarm bells for me, and although the publisher sent it to me as a gift - which happened frequently because at the time I was working as a reporter for Channel 22, the Mexican state's cultural channel - I put it aside.
Five aces later, thanks to me running into you La amica geniale, HBO series based on the saga in which Ferrante herself participates as a scriptwriter, was why I decided to give myself the opportunity to read it without prejudice. I started by The great friend, and I continued with A bad name and The debts of the body. I still need the