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Writer Danyl McLauchlan returns to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week: in the 2010s readers devoured the four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, written under the pseudonym Elene Ferrante. The books are deeply political, and Danyl McLauchlan has been reading them and pondering our own politics — wondering whether Ferrante’s novels explain it all.
Ferrante portrays a political left that appears radical in its views but conservative in its action, revealing a hypocrisy in the actions of what have been dubbed the 'professional managerial class'. Might our slowness to act on everything from the housing crisis to climate change be a condition of our culture?
McLauchlan writes on this in an essay on The Spinoff.
