{"id":109969,"date":"2017-04-17T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109969"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:16:56","slug":"elena-ferrante-my-brilliant-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/elena-ferrante-my-brilliant-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Ferrante, <i>My Brilliant Friend<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Matteo Pericoli is the founder of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablitarch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Laboratory of Literary Architecture<\/a>,\u00a0an interdisciplinary project that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">looks at fiction through the lens of architecture<\/a>,\u00a0designing and building stories\u00a0as architectural projects. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/category\/literary-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\">this series<\/a>, he\u00a0shares some of his designs and what they reveal about the stories\u00a0<\/em><em>they\u2019re modeled on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/elevation-toward-city-mountain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/elevation-toward-city-mountain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/elevation-toward-city-mountain.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/elevation-toward-city-mountain-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/elevation-toward-city-mountain-768x458.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From a structural point of view, tension and compression often meld into each another. In this\u00a0building, two volumes are interwoven by strong connecting rods, extended columns and daring\u00a0beams, with one of the two seemingly suspended from the other. With its mass and swirled\u00a0dynamism, the suspended volume (that we will call\u00a0Lila) seems to be slipping away from the one\u00a0that is holding it up (that we will call\u00a0Elena) making it extend and stretch as if it was Lila that was\u00a0shaping Elena and providing her with her dynamic energy, so vital to any piece of architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The name of this architectural complex is<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/My-Brilliant-Friend-Neapolitan-Novels\/dp\/1609450787\" target=\"_blank\">My Brilliant Friend<\/a><\/em>, after Elena <span class=\"il\">Ferrante<\/span>\u2019s novel in which\u00a0the relationship between its two protagonists (Elena, the narrating voice, and her childhood friend\u00a0Lila) is a constant, alternating flux of blurred identities and imperfect dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we know that this is\u00a0<em>My Brilliant Friend<\/em>, let\u2019s try to analyze and allow ourselves to be\u00a0transported by the stresses that occur within its architectural elements. As with structural\u00a0calculations, the reading and interpreting of a building of this kind are not at all linear and\u00a0predictable, but rather fluid and certainly not univocal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1096\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/birds-eye-view-1024x792.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is evident that if one of the two elements were to be missing, the other would have no reason to\u00a0exist. Without Lila there would be no Elena, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>There are points in the structure where it is not clear in which direction stress is expressed. The\u00a0weight is transferred from the supporting structure onto the supported one\u2014a problem for both the\u00a0calculations and the idea we were getting of the relationship between Lila and Elena.<\/p>\n<p>It is a building in which neither volume has, so to speak, clear control over the other\u2014i.e., upon\u00a0which element the functioning of the whole depends. At times it seems like Elena, while making the\u00a0extraordinary effort to support her, wants to detach herself from Lila.<\/p>\n<p>We, too, are suspended\u2014suspended between tension and compression. Motionless. If we were\u00a0the very fibers of the structure, if we were\u2014as we actually are, as both visitors of the building and\u00a0readers of the novel\u2014experiencing these forces, we would also understand and feel the additional\u00a0torsion, shear, and momentum.<\/p>\n<p>In reading a structure such as this, it is better not to stop at its surface. \u201c \u2026 We delayed, challenging\u00a0each other, without ever saying a word, testing our courage.\u201d Suspension, patience and attention.\u00a0The physics of narrative has its own way of arriving at structural audacities made of hidden tensions\u00a0and compressions. We must always be ready.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In collaboration with Giuseppe Franco.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matteo Pericoli\u2019s Literary Architecture series reimagines classic stories as architectural projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22546],"tags":[21331,14359,12976,13206,2861,15329,22550,452,28388,13134],"class_list":["post-109969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-architecture","tag-blueprints","tag-buildings","tag-drawings","tag-elena-ferrante","tag-history","tag-laboratory-of-literary-architecture","tag-literary-architecture","tag-matteo-pericoli","tag-my-brilliant-friend","tag-sketches"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin 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