I didnt realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didnt like me as I was, he wanted me to be different, or, rather, he didnt want just a woman, he wanted the woman he imagined he himself would be if he were a woman. For Franco, I said, I was an opportunity for him to expand into the feminine, to take possession of it: I constituted the proof of his omnipotence, the demonstration that he knew now to be not only a man in the right way, but also a woman.
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Elena Ferrante was Italian pseudonymous italian writer. Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Read more on Wikipedia →