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L'amica geniale. S1E08. La promessa.

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Lila and I, go and live far away, lightheartedly descending together all the steps of humiliation, alone, in unknown cities.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt // The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

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new year new me! i will be tracking down everyone eventually and you can also go and follow me there if you like

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my brilliant friend s2e06 // the goldfinch by donna tartt

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new year new me! i will be tracking down everyone eventually and you can also go and follow me there if you like

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L'amica geniale. S1E05. Le scarpe.

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new year new me! i will be tracking down everyone eventually and you can also go and follow me there if you like

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la chimera (2023) dir. alice rohrwacher

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

From the Penguin Classics intro to the 120 Days of Sodom (1785)

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barthes

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L’Amica Geniale, Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay

[deviika]

—Iris Murdoch

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lila sempre nello stresso luogo e sempre fuori luogo.

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My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante / The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch

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Mary Shelley’s Mathilda

summer semester art project, acrylic on canvas

more pictures and text under the cut

Short novelette Mathilda written by Mary Shelley, the mother of Frankenstein herself, touched me in a certain way since the very moment I read it. Is it the authors writing style? The autobiographical elements snuck into it? The book not being shy portraying taboo elements and feminist ideas, unlike great majority of other books written in the early 19th century? Perhaps all of it.

I really wanted to pay homage to this piece of literature, moments in the plot that struck with me, and to Mary Shelley herself. Correct me if i’m mistaken, but to this day I don’t think there’s any collection of illustrations nor paintings inspired by this written piece, and I’m very proud and honoured to be the first one!

Here! Despite disagreements on my vision between me and my art professors, initial frustration with the poses (incredible thanks to my friend @the-gay-sailor for helping and mental support), months of work when i felt like what I’m doing is pointless, I am ready and satisfied with the result.

I hope you enjoy it as equally as I do :]

[balkanlila]

the thing with michele and lila is soooo incredibly gender-orientated in a sense that he doesn't view her as a woman, but an extension of his own being, so almost a man, or a man in all the ways that matter according to him. think about elena's franco-inspired analysis that sparks a book later on. michele and lila from michele's point of view is as if a man didn't have to try and rearrange a woman to mirror his own reflection, michele sees lila as someone who already exists in that shape. and the fact that lila exists as not quite female, as in the definition of female michele nurtures, is what makes it so easy for lila to direct michele to alfonso, who is also a person who exists in opposition to gender as they all understand it. and most of all... lila recognises the similarity between herself and michele too. that's the card she plays when she makes a deal with him. that's why he is her target instead of marcello.