![]() ![]() (The show has English subtitles.) Excitedly, Lila recites a passage in which Jo herself reads out loud, from her first published short story, to her sisters, without telling them who wrote it. On a bench in their grungy, violent Naples neighborhood, Elena and Lila lounge, bodies entwined, wearing shabby dresses, reading in unison, in Italian. This sequence is a delight in the TV adaptation, too, which is currently airing on HBO. ![]() They wreck it with their love: “We read it for months, so many times that the book became tattered and sweat-stained, it lost its spine, came unthreaded, sections fell apart.” They fantasize about emulating Jo March, who escaped poverty by writing. ![]() In one of the loveliest sequences in Elena Ferrante’s novel “ My Brilliant Friend,” two girls read “ Little Women.” But Elena and Lila don’t merely read the book together. ![]()
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