How I made Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ into a graphic novel

,” the first installment of the trilogy exploring the stormy, lifelong relationship between two Neapolitan girls — Elena Greco and Raffaella Cerullo — was an instant hit. The novel has already been adapted for the stage and screen. This year Italian artist Mara Cerri gave it a whole new life,” collaborated with Italian writer Chiara Lagani and translator Ann Goldstein to create the new edition. Here Cerri explains her process.

I used acrylic colors and ink on paper to create the panels. I tried to use color so that it would serve the narrative, modulating it with the scenes. Each frame was drawn on a separate sheet, so they could be assembled differently as the story developed. To draw Lila and Lenù, I needed to feel intimately, in my body and my hand, the physical and psychological differences between them — to discover how their different temperaments live within each of us.

The drawing style has the materiality and density of Ferrante’s writing. It engages intimately with the environments in which the story is set. The Neapolitan neighborhood, the buildings’ walls, the texture of the streets are one with the characters who inhabit them. Yet, childhood and wonder pierce through like beams of light, revealing blue skies.This is also what happens on Enzo’s face, the boy who hits Lila in the head with a rock.

Chiara has often played Elena Greco onstage with her company Fanny & Alexander. On many occasions, it was her voice that set the temperature and internal movement of the drawings. She selected scenes from the book with razor-sharp precision. She learned to work with the silences and pauses that drawing requires, always with the utmost respect and dedication to the original novel.

The scene of the dissolving boundaries is a masterpiece in the novel. Ferrante traces two planes of reality: the colorful fireworks that explode in the sky conceal the brutality of the gunshots. Lila notices this first. The fireworks are fluorescent meteors that shatter the sky and tear the veil of reality. Lila’s face becomes that of a porcelain doll, irreparably cracked. The symbolic elements of the novel came together spontaneously in my hands.

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