Neapel liegt nicht am Meer

As for Naples, I feel especially drawn to Ortese today. If I were able to write about this city, I would try to explore the direction it has taken, wrote Elena Ferrante, thereby enabling the discovery of Anna Maria Ortese's brilliant stories and literary reports from post-war Naples. With great narrative power and human warmth, Ortese captures that poor part of the city that is not by the sea.