After reading “Fragments,” my understanding of Ferrante has deepened — Travel with book

When I read “The Neapolitan Novels” last year, I resonated with the protagonist’s mention of her sister in law, who taught at a university and had a certain view on feminism. She believed it was a trend to go along with, a concept that intellectuals were expected to have.

People who have read many books often tend to force the ideas they read onto themselves, and I have encountered such individuals in real life as well, which always made me feel awkward…

This is also my counter-ideology. We really don’t need to figure out what the left or the right are up to. No cultural classification can fully represent our unique thoughts. That’s why I have always been reluctant to label myself as a feminist or to oppose any particular ideology.

What excites me now is that my idol (just an adjective, no idol worship here) shares this viewpoint and resonates with me so well. Lola told me before that after reading “The Lying Life of Adults,” it felt like a story I could have written, and after reading it, I somewhat felt the same way. Perhaps this isn’t something to be proud of, but why is it that my thoughts align so closely with a woman from Naples born in the 1940s?