So am I crazy if I think there might be something more between

>>8418417

inb4 /lit/ only reads male Ferrante, Knausgaard

>>8418417
I've been thinking about reading Ferrante but the covers (at least in the UK) are just so bloody awful.

>>8418419
They're nothing alike. They suck in completely different ways.

>>8418444

Yeah, they look really cheap. Trust me though, it's great. Kind of reminds of Dostoyevsky in that it's all these troubled characters and places you can't help but love, except that whereas Dostoyevsky is trying to get across philosophical points or whatever, Ferrante, like Knausgård, is just being heart to heart.

>>8418458

Saying two of the most celebrated contemporary writers suck means one of two things. 1) You're not educated enough to appreciate them or at least understand their appeal, 2) You subscribe to some very specific ideas about what books are supposed to be like. Since you just declared they suck without providing any contextualization of any kind, I'm partial to assuming 1) is the case, and that you're one of the many people on /lit/ who support each other in the illusion that hating almost everything somehow makes you superior.

>>8418444
I don't like them either but at least they're awful on purpose. The designer has talked about "dressing an extremely refined story with a touch of vulgarity," apparently Ferrante approves.

>>8418524

Lol, I didn't know about that. When you put it that way, I kind of like it too.