A learning more novel, written in a conventional narrative: nothing, in principle, to hold the attention of exigeant.Mais it would make a big mistake: drive has rarely read a recent novel also well built , whose characters are as many characters, whose situations are also involved, and that page after page.Sensibilité and intelligence characterize the approach of the author, of great finesse. In a poor neighborhood of Naples, Elena, the narrator, is a friend of Lila gifted, but their paths diverge, and we are following their marriage to the child routes Lila.Le people of Naples is the character of the story with artisans, intellectuals downgraded, its village leaders, women's courage and self-sacrifice; the gradual discovery by Elena of his city, its volcano and the sea is the image of his personal development; and we are following with growing interest the protagonists of this novel, to the last paragraph that make us claim to Gallimard a quick translation of the following volumes. Whatever the identity of the real Elena Ferrante, his book is a masterpiece and confirms the place of Naples in the Italian literature contemporaine.Et Lila is the developer of the passions that animate all the protagonists of the " 'prodigious friend ".