A defaced family photograph—with an ancestor cut out—reveals to Ferrante’s new protagonist how women are erased by the words and deeds of men.
Stiliana Milkova
Stiliana Milkova is associate professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College and a translator from Italian. Her scholarly publications include articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literature, and the forthcoming monograph Elena Ferrante as World Literature (Bloomsbury Academic). 