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I had never heard of this place before watching the Naples Tetralogy, but after reading it, I knew I could never erase it from my memory.

Formally, it records the emotional history between two women (Elena and Anabel) for half a century in the form of memoirs, as if it were a grand drama.

The play is all-encompassing and complicated. There is love, friendship and affection here. They shine with the light of love and freedom, and are also full of jealousy, betrayal and lies. In this workshop, no one is perfect and simple, and everyone is burdened with an unbearable past.

The play is long and tortuous. From childhood to old age, from Naples to Florence, Milan, Paris and Turin, its projection is everywhere.

The play goes on and on and never ends. From the doll in Elena's hand, the doll in Li's hand, to the name of the next generation of children, it is destined to be an endless cycle, as if all the love and hate in the world are mapped out one by one, leaving no dead ends and blind spots.

And the core of the spotlight, all to the protagonist Elena and Anabel. And this kind of hearty love and killing began in their primary school.

A place called Naples

"There is a kind of anger in the heart of the city that has nowhere to vent. Her interior is noisy and undulating, with poisonous sores on the surface and full of poison inside. She hates everyone: children, adults, old people, people from other cities, Americans from NATO, tourists from any country, Neapolitans. How can they stand this chaotic and dangerous place? "

Naples in the 1940s was the place where the protagonist (Elena) and Anabel grew up. This place is dark and complicated, decadent and dark. Here, dirty water, garbage and germs all flow into the sea, eroding the underground world. People die because they don't get care, because of corruption and oppression, but every election, they are still full of enthusiasm and support politicians who make their lives unbearable.

In Elena's eyes, all the urban areas in Naples are no different and full of evil. Every time she returns to Naples, she feels that the city is like a pool of mud. It can't stand the change of seasons-hot and cold, and it can't cope with heavy rain. It seems that every rainy season is a complete collapse for this city.

"After entering the rainy season, the city collapsed again, and a building collapsed from the middle, just like a person leaning on a moth-eaten sofa armrest, and the armrest collapsed, causing many deaths and injuries. What followed was shouting, fighting and angry words in the newspaper. "

Zhang Xiaofeng said, "I always feel uneasy when the weather is too good", while Elena and Anabel, as children growing up in Naples, have no sense of security when the sun shines on stones, buildings, fields, the outside and their families, only fear of darkness and all kinds of feelings that almost make people collapse.

In this growing environment, they even naturally learned a habit: we must make others' lives more difficult before others make ours more difficult.

But this is a testimony to the long friendship between Elena and Anabel. All Elena's literary achievements are doomed to be inseparable from Naples, which has become a very important part of her life.

Genius girlfriend in the slums.

"Has Elena become worse than before?"

? "No, she didn't."

"Why?"

Anabel put a wool hat on his son's head and said, "We have an agreement since childhood: I am the bad girl."

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Elena and Anabel have been inseparable since childhood. Once, because of a quarrel, they threw their dolls (Tina and Noel) into a dark room, which they thought was Don Aquile's basement. At that time, Don Accili was a frightening monster in their hearts, and Elena described him very badly.

For many years, I imagined that saws, clips, hammers, hammers and thousands of nails were like bees? Behind Achille; For many years, I imagined all kinds of materials-sausages, cheese, bacon, lard and ham, pouring out of his rough body like bees. "

At this time, although both of them were afraid, they still struggled with each other and refused to give up. Although they were together, they basically took Elena (me) bravely to find Don? Archie blackmailed their dolls back.

As the beginning of the whole series, this story almost lays and reflects the power and posture between Elena and Anabel. The result of the story is Don? Archer gave them some money to buy dolls. They bought a picture of a little woman and made a great ambition: to be a writer in the future.

As Elena's "genius girlfriend", Anabel always seems so brave, decisive, strong and even tough. Her life is turbulent, but Elena's life is frozen. In Elena's eyes, Anabel's drive can't be ignored. Her body smells wild and even evil, so attractive and dangerous that when harassed by hooligans, the little girl will not hesitate to put a knife on each other's neck to fight back.

On the other hand, Elena, although she is Anabel's best partner and friend, seems that Anabel as a whole is always above her, as if her life is a vassal and revolves around Anabel. Elena studies hard, but her goal is to be on an equal footing with her peers;

"I think I sacrificed my warm bed and sleep in the morning, not to show myself in front of the teacher of that rich school, but to not lose face in front of the shoemaker's daughter (Anabel)."

In Elena's eyes, it seems that the eyes of the whole city are attracted and appreciated by Anabel. This vassal harmony even lasted until Elena became famous for the first time, until she thought she had completely "got rid of Anabel". However, it seems that every time some specific events break in, let her see that she and Anabel are constantly cutting the chaotic joint belt.

"Sometimes when I come back from school, I make a detour at a distance and don't want to pass their shop. If I see her far away, I will change my route because of anxiety; But then I couldn't help it. I walked towards her, just like it was meant to be. "

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They grew up together, more than learning, more than reading, more than love, even more than physical development:

"I want to make pizza dough. My chest, thighs and buttocks are getting fuller and fuller. "

"I saw her squinting in the sun, her shirt bulging, her chest undulating, and the wind poured into her clothes."

It seems that Anabel always leaves first, and her family made her give up her studies. She decided to get married at the age of sixteen, which was unthinkable for Elena, who was also a girl. This is particularly evident in Anabel's wedding day:

"I have never seen her naked, which makes me a little embarrassed. Now it seems that I was embarrassed because I was attracted by her perfect figure. I witnessed her beauty when I was sixteen, because in a few hours, Stefano (Anabel's husband, Don Akel's son) would touch her, enter her, change her, and possibly get her pregnant. "

She imagined that Stefano would completely defile Anabel on the wedding night, and he would enter Anabel rudely and simply, "like a cork in a wine bottle entering a bottleneck".

Although Elena was born in poverty, her family still allowed her to continue her studies. Just like what is happening in this era, their lives have parted ways since then, and there seems to be no way to draw a picture that connects them.

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Although Anabel was excellent at school, he left only one word in primary school. Its name is Blue Fairy.

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Anabel and I have a talented boyfriend.

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"If nothing can save us-not money, not people, not schools, it is better to destroy everything at once."

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When they enter youth, they already have their own lives.

At this time, Elena studied hard and entered the university. She tried to shake off Anabel's influence. When Elena was leaving Naples for college, Anabel gave her a small box containing her life records and asked her to swear that she would never open it at any time. But Elena opened the box when she boarded the train and chose to push it into the cold Arno River of Sol Felino Bridge. For Elena:

"The way she (Anabel) influenced me, everyone, everything and all the knowledge she owned fell into the river; Anything related to her-books and shoes, tenderness and violence, weddings and wedding nights, and Raphael? Mrs. Karachi returned to the city in this new identity-all this seems to have been pushed into the river by me. "

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In that place called University, Elena will have her own room, her own bed, her own desk and all the books she needs. The porter's daughter, when she was nineteen, finally got rid of the city.

"I'm leaving Naples, alone!"

And Anabel, after experiencing the life of a rich wife, her marriage finally turned to tragedy, and her husband Stefano finally showed his evil face.

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"She suddenly realized that he had always been Don? Archer's eldest son! That thought made her feel that some features suddenly appeared on her husband's young face. Out of caution, these features were hidden silently, but they have been hidden in Stefano's blood, waiting to appear at the right time. "

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Anabel's husband was cruel to her. At night, in the bedroom, room and bed, he tore Anabel's body with cruel passion. To her, the word "husband" means toad, poisonous snake and spider, which makes the powerful Anabel breed strong hatred.

But more importantly, the breakdown of this marriage gave Nino a chance to appear, and also gave Elena countless contacts with Anabel.

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As the object of Elena's secret love since childhood, Nino of the same age is so perfect in her eyes. He is slender and handsome, and his eyes are full of sparks of wisdom, just like the characters in novels and movies.

If Anabel is Elena's genius girlfriend, Nino is her genius boyfriend.

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Unfortunately, this boyfriend is now in Anabel's world.

When Anabel's marriage was frustrated, when Elena accompanied Anabel to Ischia (where Nino lived) for a holiday, when Elena looked forward to making progress with Nino every day and even thought they were in love, she discovered the unacceptable fact that Nino fell in love with Anabel. This makes the relationship between the three people more complicated.

In Elena's eyes, this is destined to be a romantic relationship with no future. At that time, Anabel was married and Nino was not single. They are like a pair of fallen angels, playing stupid boyfriend and girlfriend games.

However, Elena did not leave in anger. On the one hand, she hopes that they will be drowned, and the desire for death deprives them of the joy they will enjoy tomorrow. Imagine that they are enjoying themselves crazily today just to nourish the violence tomorrow. On the other hand, after a short period of pain, she stayed to play games with them. She imagined that Anabel had replaced herself to complete her love for Nino.

Finally, after breaking up, Anabel and Nino chose to get back together. This time, Anabel blocked her marriage, her property and everything, but in the end, she lost Nino.

Elena buried herself in her studies and achieved satisfactory results. When she graduated, she published a book, which brought her great confidence and satisfaction. When Anabel lost everything and made a living in a dirty factory, she never looked like a rich woman.

Elena regained confidence in her friend Anabel, and when they met again, they almost became strangers.

"I think we will cry, talk and argue in secret, and we will have a good morning, confess to each other and make up. But as a result, we walked arm in arm. She dresses bloated, dirty and haggard, while I dress like a rich woman. "

When she picked up the old book, she realized that they had always been in contact.

"If you want to know what makes my book hot, there is a powerful but invisible clue running through all the words, you should analyze the story written by this girl: more than a dozen pages in the notebook, rusty paper clips, colorful covers, stories with names, but no author's signature."

"But in the end, I admitted what I understood after reading a few lines-these pages written by Anabel at that time were the secret core of my book."

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The name of that old unpublished book is Blue Fairy.

A black hole called Nino

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Elsa looked at me and asked, "Mom, who are you talking to?" Come and play with us. "One day Dai Dai said," Don't call her, she is talking to her boyfriend. "

As an adult, Elena went further and further on the road to fame by publishing books. She entered the upper class. She met a promising young university professor, Pietro, and got engaged to her. She has a strong mother-in-law to support her.

On the other hand, Anabel is struggling with the harsh living environment.

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"She asked, eight hours a day, the water has been diffuse to the belt, soaked in boiled sausage, is a kind of what kind of experience? When the bone was removed, the hand was covered with wounds. Can you imagine? Going in and out of the freezer at MINUS 20 degrees and earning ten lira per hour-ten lira-as a frostbite subsidy, can you imagine? "

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In the end, she chose to support each other and live with her childhood fighting partner Enzo, but she didn't get married.

And Elena, after getting everything she wanted, finally realized that this marriage was mediocre, boring and without passion. When she met Nino again (Nino was married at this time), this dissatisfaction finally broke out, and her marriage with her husband Petro broke down.

She and Nino agreed to split up and leave together.

"The plane suddenly took off and left the ground. The plane kept rising and finally began to fly forward. I saw the house below turned into a parallelepiped, the road turned into lines, the fields turned green, the sea lay sideways like a thin sheet, and the clouds flowed down like an avalanche. Those pains and anxieties, as well as happiness, blend together and become very bright. I feel like I'm flying and everything becomes easy. "

But it's not that simple.

After the passion, she found that Nino had completely deceived her. He plays with all kinds of women. He just wants passion. He has never broken contact with his wife and children. But after all, he is a frivolous person, very superficial, like an animal, sweat and body fluids will flow out, and after enjoying it casually, he will leave behind the living things bred in the nourished woman's stomach.

At the moment when she found herself betrayed, she suddenly found an alien who had exposed her identity in the bathroom.

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Nino betrayed us-Anabel and I both suffered the same humiliation.

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"A man, except those crazy moments-you love him, he enters your moment, and the rest of the time is outside you. In other words, you don't love him later, and the thought of wanting him before makes you feel uncomfortable. "

In this play, marriage, as a form, seems to be ridiculed to have nowhere to hide. On the surface, marriage is eternal, as if it will dissolve in the snowstorm of hell until death and final judgment, but in fact, it is fragile. Anabel's marriage in the church and Elena's refusal to let the church choose the Civil Affairs Bureau led to the breakdown of their marriage.

Marriage wavers, but lust endures.

Children's story

I asked Dai Dai, "Do you like Renault?"

? "Yes," she said angrily. "If we don't get married, I'll sleep with him."

"With Renault?"

"Yes, just like Aunt Lena and Enzo, just like you and Nino."

From middle age to middle age, Elena's writing career has finally become more and more successful after experiencing twists and turns, and seems to have left Naples. Anabel's world seems more and more limited. She started a new career with Enzo and earned more and more money, but she always closed herself in the world of Naples.

And their stories, with tenacious vitality, penetrated into the next generation.

Elena has three children, Daidai, Elsa (with her husband Pietro), Ima (with Nino's child) and Anabel have two children, Renault (with her husband Stefano's child) and Tina (with Enzo's child).

Later, Dai Li and Elsa fell in love with Renault, and the two sisters even tore their faces. The latter seems to have no aura in front of Tina, just like Elena and Anabel when they were young. This made Elena's heart churn again.

"I began to observe Ima very carefully, and I soon found that she was really having a hard time. She is Tina's vassal. Tina is very happy, cheerful, talkative and painful. Everyone loves her, especially winning my love. Although her daughter is beautiful and smart, she will be eclipsed in front of Tina, and people will not see her advantages. She is very sad about this. "

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But things finally turned upside down, and Daidai and Elsa finally got back together and left Renault. And Tina became the missing child, and became the eternal pain in Anabel's heart.

The disappearing blue fairy

"That's what she did: she lied to me, she dragged me where she wanted to go, and she has been like this since we became friends. She used my body and my life to tell the story of her redemption. "

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Tina's disappearance seems to be the trigger for Anabel's sinking. At this time, the two have entered old age, and her life seems to be in great darkness. Finally, one day, Renault (Giannaro) discovers that his mother Anabel has disappeared without leaving any trace.

Of course, Elena knew about it, and after a desperate search, she gave up. She picked up her childhood doll again. Besides smelling moldy, she also remembered novels.

"He gave us money, let's buy a new doll. But we didn't use the money to buy dolls-how can we replace Tina and promise with other dolls? We bought a little woman, let Anabel write the blue fairy, and let me become what I am today. "

This seems to be the end of the story. In this play, it seems that everyone has something they can't get rid of, and these things are even born. Only after everything, people began to realize this. Stefano gradually showed his father's cruel side after marriage. After experiencing emotional entanglements with Elena and Anabel, Nino showed irresponsibility as a father. After her book Fame and the Breakup of Marriage, Elena found that she could not live without Anabel. Elena's feelings, works and children are all related to Anabel. They are each other's doppelgangers, constantly in chaos.

In this play, Naples is like a besieged city, but it is more like a symbol of the whole world.

Maybe this is why Anabel disappeared, or she left.

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And this kind of parting is her farewell to her past and the world-just like her legendary novels.

"I saw her parked in front of the bonfire, wearing that dress, and I couldn't see her feminine characteristics. She turned over the blue fairy and suddenly threw it into the fire. "