Rebecca Falkoff is an assistant professor of Italian Studies at New York University. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Italian literature, psychoanalysis, biopolitics, and thing theory. She is currently working on a cultural history of hoarding.
Rebecca Falkoff
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Writing on Public Books
To Translate Is to Betray: On the Elena Ferrante Phenomenon in Italy and the US
The stunning fortunes of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels in the United States have only recently begun to affect their reception in the author’s native country, giving rise to competing theories and occasionally ugly polemics: Are Italians simply unable to recognize greatness in one of their own? Are American readers uncritically falling for sentimental “women’s” novels? […]
