The neapolitan quartet7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() “Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.” For Ferrante, the falsehoods that people tell one another and themselves in everyday life- I am happy I love my wife I didn’t know what I was doing-are “lovely tales,” or “petty lies.” At moments when guilt and shame threaten our conscience, when they shake our deepest beliefs about who we are, petty lies stop us from looking too closely at ourselves. “T o tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves,” Elena Ferrante observed in a 2002 interview. ![]()
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