Video: Ann Goldstein on Elena Ferrante's "Dialect"

The Leonard Lopate Show Book Club got a lot of listener questions for Ann Goldstein, the literary translator responsible for bringing Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels to English readers. The most popular question? How does Elena Ferrante use "dialect," and how does Ms. Goldstein interpret it? According to Goldstein, Ferrante's dialect is the language of children, anger, and home, while Italian is reserved for formal education, and for "getting out of where you are." Find out more in the video above. You can also listen to the full on-air interview here!