Elena Ferrante’s Naples
A presentation by Sara Marinelli
Tuesday, December 10 | 6:30 PM
Event open to the public | Registration required
You read all Elena Ferrante’s books comprising My Brilliant Friend quartet, you’ve been watching the HBO series adaptation, and perhaps you’re curious about the charming and intense city of Naples, the setting of Lila and Lenù’s story across decades of Italian social history. Join Sara Marinelli for a multimedia exploration of Naples and its culture guided by locations in Ferrante’s narrative.
Sara Marinelli is a San Francisco-based writer who grew up in Naples. To use an Italian expression, she believes Elena Ferrante “took the words out of her mouth” in describing aspects of life in the city, or more accurately, she gifted them to her and many women born and raised there. Sara is a 2024-2025 Brown Handler writer-in-residence and a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera. Her work appears in New American Writing, Blue Mesa, Review, Pummarol, Nazione Indiana, Alias. She teaches Comparative Literature and Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco.