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virgin-martyr · 5 months
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I wanted to sleep lying in the darkest depths of myself.
Elena Ferrante, excerpt from The Days of Abandonment (trans. by Ann Goldstein)
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blueberrystudiess · 7 months
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beach read…. elena ferrante could write a shopping list and i would consume it with glee
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beyourselfchulanmaria · 6 months
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Ichiro Tsuruta 鶴田一郎
めざめ (Awaking) 2003
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我決定,夠痛了。我會把我的復仇之情依附在他們夜裡幸福的嘴唇上。 我不是那個在被遺棄和缺席的打擊下支離破碎、發瘋、死去的女人。 只有幾塊碎片脫落了,其餘的我都很好。 我是完整的,我會保持完整。 對於傷害我的人,我會以實物回報。 我是黑桃皇后,我是蜇人的黃蜂,我是黑蛇。 我是刀槍不入的動物,經過火不被燒傷。
I decided, enough pain. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned. 
─ Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment《被遺棄的日子》
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litandlifequotes · 3 months
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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
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pinkbowjournal · 2 years
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I decided, enough pain. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splinted off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through the fire and is not burned.
Elena Farrante, The Day of Abandonment.
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"'Is it true that you don't love me anymore?'
'Yes.'
'Why? Because I lied to you? Because I left you? Because I humiliated you?'
'No. Just when I felt deceived, abandoned, humiliated, I loved you very much, I wanted you more than in any other moment of our life together.'
'And then?'
'I don't love you anymore because, to justify yourself, you said that you had fallen into a void, an absence of sense, and it wasn't true.'"
The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante
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veryslowreader · 1 year
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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Gossip Girl: "Final Cancellation"
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beljar · 2 years
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The reasonableness of others and my own desire for tranquility got on my nerves. The breath built up in my throat, ready to vibrate with words of rage. I felt the need to quarrel, and in fact I quarreled first with our male friends, then with their wives or girlfriends, and finally I went on to clash with anyone, male or female, who tried to help me accept what was happening to my life.
Elena Ferrante, from The Days of Abandonment, 2002
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hilsoncrater · 1 year
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go girl put glass shards in his pasta sauce!!
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The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein, features a woman who has hit her breaking point. Her husband is leaving her, shaking her world down to its foundations. She thinks of all the abandoned women she's seen, in her childhood and in literature, about their shameful behavior, the way they fall to pieces. In the presence of her two children, she breaks.
Ferrante is always superb, and this is some of her most searing work. Olga experiences all the raw mess of an abruptly ended marriage. She put so much into this relationship, and he has ended it bluntly and suddenly—she feels he has stolen her past, stolen her time, stolen the parts of herself that she allowed to change as they grew alongside one another. She wants to tear him out of her, but no longer knows what will be left of her if she does. And her children suffer in the messiness of their destruction, as Olga falls apart, coming ultimately to a climax of panic and urgency that will either send her over the edge or force her back together.
The journey of Olga's pain is intensely well-written and believable, the rushes of anxiety and aimlessness that strike her, the forgetfulness and loss that overwhelms her as she grieves her marriage while struggling to keep her children safe, and struggling to find her way back to a woman she recognizes. Grief can drive us to irrationality, and Ferrante is not afraid to plunge us into that truth—Olga is frightening, makes poor decisions, and loses herself, but ultimately is on a journey towards finding a new self. It's a shocking book that's willing to engage the most reprehensible and painful emotions and actions of this abandoned woman without forgiveness but also without condemnation.
Content warnings for suicide attempt mention, self-harm, animal cruelty and death, child neglect. 
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currently reading:
the days of abandonment. not far into it but im already frustrated
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virgin-martyr · 5 months
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The whole future—I thought—will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.
Elena Ferrante, excerpt from The Days of Abandonment (trans. by Ann Goldstein)
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mrsbillycranston · 2 years
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I really dig Elena Ferrante, but I had stop about a quarter of the way through The Days of Abandonment because I just *knew* something was going to happen to Otto the German Shepherd.
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thewolveswithin · 6 months
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lostmembrane · 6 months
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“We consummate life and lose it because in some long-ago time someone, in the desire to unload his cock inside us, was nice, chose us among women.”
“The Days of Abandonment”
Elena Ferrante
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pinkbowjournal · 2 years
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In the air was a thick smell of wild mint, of dust, of bark burned by the sun.
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment. 
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