Notably, all these images portray the woman's body trapped within the frame of visual representation, within an artwork which is always the product of a male artist. Likewise, the text teems with artworks – the father's lurid paintings of a semi-nude gypsy a masterful canvas depicting two women and displayed in the window of a lingerie shop and several photographic portraits of Amalia and Delia. Delia is a comic artist in Rome her father is a Neapolitan painter of vulgar commercial canvases and Amalia is an artist who works with fabric – as a seamstress, she invents and reinvents clothes, bodies, stories. more In this essay I examine Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto as a novel about artists, artist figures, and artistic legacies. In this essay I examine Elena Ferrante's L'amore molesto as a novel about artists, artist figures. Keywords: Elena Ferrante, Turin, The Days of Abandonment, spatial story, walking, city map, topography, feminine psyche Read through its itineraries and urban sites, The Days of Abandonment constitutes a feminine walking tour of Turin, mapping the intersections of women’s bodies and cityscapes. This plotting of her body onto Turin’s map offers a topographic lens through which to explore urban space and culture as they inform the feminine physical and psychic landscapes in a contemporary Italian cityscape. The itineraries that I trace position Olga in a real-life topography that oppresses her body and psyche. I traverse the novel’s urban text punctuated by concrete sites––fountains and street intersections, urban signs and graffiti, public urinals and bronze monuments-to locate the novel’s narrative events on Turin’s map. In this article, I examine Ferrante’s spatial poetics by charting the walking routes of Olga, the narrator of "The Days of Abandonment." I approach "The Days of Abandonment" as a spatial story, a narrative contingent on the protagonist’s walking in the city, on her body’s negotiating a hostile urban cityscape. Turin is also the topographic background of her second novel, "The Days of Abandonment" (I giorni dell’abbandono, 2002). But her tetralogy "My Brilliant Friend" (2011-2014) features a narrative frame set in the city of Turin. Much attention has been paid to Naples as the setting of Elena Ferrante’s novels.
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