Sometimes someone holds your hand tightly. You grasp the outstretched hand and follow, without thinking. Is it love that drags you after it? Yes, sometimes, mostly. But it’s not just that… It’s what you search for in yourself but can’t find, your shortcomings, your weaknesses, your loneliness, your feeling overshadowed, your desire to lean on someone, your instinct to feed off someone; it’s also a bit of a need for completion. These are intricate relationships. Especially if friendship started in childhood, if that long life path was sometimes separated and sometimes reunited and walked together, if friendship changed shape with changes and transformations at every crossroads, it got even more intricate. Wouldn’t a beautiful novel emerge from such a tricky friendship, my friends! If love and jealousy are intertwined, if our main characters, whom we know as two smart little girls, grow up, experience many turbulent love affairs, participate in many struggles in life to exist for themselves, and continue their lives that started in a poor neighborhood as women who can stand on their own two feet in more prosperous environments, I think a very beautiful novel that flows like water, where everyone can find something for themselves, will emerge. And one is not enough. After all, not one but two lives are told, well, the people around these two women are also involved. One book is not enough. There was a very entertaining song from the musical Seven Husbands with Hurmuz. Ayten Gokcer comes to my mind, on stage: Oh God, I have three for me/ Three is not enough for me, five/ Five is not enough for me, seven/ Give me, give me/ Give me, God, give me, she begs God. Well, she wanted a husband, we want a novel. And God hears our voices and gives us exactly four novels. Come on, we are good again, Readers. Yes sir, you wanted it so much, you definitely said Elena Ferrante. I rolled up my sleeves and returned to the world of my beloved girls, Lenu and Lila, am I going to hurt you! This section of I am a Reader includes Neapolitan Novels. We will start from the first book, My Extraordinarily Intelligent Friend, but of course we cannot just cut the girls’ lives short and give up. The series continues with three more novels, The Story of My New Surname, Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed, The Story of the Lost Girl, as you know. Therefore, our conversation will include four books. And we will also meet the author who prefers to hide her identity, and although we will not question her as the press has been asking for years, “Who are you, who are you, tell me who you are, why are you hiding yourself from us,” we will try to create a portrait from her writings. If you ask me, Elena Ferrante is a very interesting person, even if her photo is not on the pages of newspapers and magazines, getting to know her from her writings is a nice journey for the readers. Who is our guest? Someone who has thoroughly penetrated the world of our girls and writers due to her profession. On the other end of the line is Eren Yücesan Cendey, one of the important Italian translators of our country who translated not only the Neapolitan Quartet but also many of Elena Ferrante's works into Turkish. If you are ready, let's start! Elena doesn't want to hear, but our conversation inevitably begins with her secret identity. Well, if there is a mystery in the middle of a human being or a girl, they are drawn into the vortex and try to solve it. #denizyücebaşarır #benokurum #elenaferrante #erenyücesancendey #napoli #benimolganüstüakıllıfriend