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Abstract

This paper aims at offering a comparative analysis of the narrator in the novel (2002) by the Italian writer Elena Ferrante, and the narrator in the cinematographic version of the same work (2005), directed by Roberto Faenza. The paper focuses on some narrative properties that emerge in Elena Ferrante’s novel and compares the literary narrator to the cinematographic narrator in Roberto Faenza’s movie. Furthermore, the paper discusses different narrative strategies as used in these two different media, literary text and cinematographic work.

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