Setting
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante

My Brilliant Friend: Setting 1 key example

Definition of Setting

Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:

Like much of Ferrante's work, nearly all of My Brilliant Friend is set in Naples and the surrounding area, in the southwest of the Italian peninsula on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The only major exception is the novel's prologue, which takes place in Turin, in northern Italy, where Lenù moves later in life. Otherwise, the novel remains in Naples. Lenù's story brings the reader to a huge number of different locations in the city; as a whole, the novel forms a rich and varied picture of Naples in the 1950s.