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The Wall Street Journal

Friends and Other Enemies

‘No form could ever contain Lila,’ the narrator writes of her brilliant friend. Nor can a novel.

By ELIZABETH LOWRY
How should we classify Elena Ferrante’s magnificently complicated Neapolitan quartet? The three previous titles in the series—“My Brilliant Friend” (2012), “The Story of a New Name” (2013) and “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” (2014)—defy categorization.
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