Dear students,

This is a reminder that short prompts for your blog posts are always to be find in the section “course schedule”. For next week I ask you to finish reading the first volume. Study again the essay on Naples by Benjamin and choose one specific aspect of that essay that you want to use a lens to read Ferrante. You can look for analogies but also differences. In the first part of your post introduce the idea you want to explore, then explain in detail how Benjamin defines it and what examples he offers. State how the same notion (or the opposite one) emerges in Ferrante, or maybe how Ferrante represents it but in different ways. Use quotations from Ferrante, but don’t leave them without comments.

Leave a comment if you have any questions. I look forward to reading your posts.

Enjoy the book!