When Eleanor Foa Dienstag reviewed The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante in July, the fourth and final novel in the series, The Story of the Lost Child, was not yet published. Dienstag wrote, “I cannot wait to see how it all turns out, although it’s fairly clear, from the opening sections of My Brilliant Friend (the first of the series), that it will probably be far from a happy ending.”
This month, the final chapter in this Italian saga was released. Elissa Schappell tells us in a brilliant two-part interview with Ferrante for Vanity Fair, that fans are “in a white-hot lather” about the series’ conclusion.
