The news that the true identity of the writer Elena Ferrante has, allegedly, been uncovered was published on the blog of
The New York Review of Books at 1
A.M.
on Sunday—the Internet’s witching hour, when salacious tidbits are
unloaded online to greet the unsuspecting citizens of Twitter bright and
early in the morning. It was met with widespread consternation from
Ferrante fans. People are pissed. The sleuth, an Italian journalist
named Claudio Gatti, has gone beyond the efforts of previous Ferrante
truthers, who have generally tried either to compare the biographies of
various Italian writers with what is known or inferred about Ferrante’s life
or to match their literary style with hers, and used forensic
accounting to uncover a money trail that, he believes, leads straight to
the source...
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