“A Chi Assomiglia Elena Ferrante? Un Profilo Stilometrico Aggiornato [Who Does Elena Ferrante Look Like? A Revised Stylometric Identikit]”, 2020-11-01 ():
Based on a corpus including 150 novels by 40 authors, a stylometric survey was conducted to assess which modern authors were similar to Elena Ferrante, the pen name used for 8 novels, including My Brilliant Friend (2018a and 2018b). The survey proved that Elena Ferrante’s writing style is remarkably different from that of the other main contemporary Italian novelists with the notable exception of Domenico Starnone. Follow-up studies (Cortelazzo, 2018 and another under way) show that non-fiction works signed by Elena Ferrante may be attributed to different authors, ie. Anita Raja, Starnone again, and a collective author including the staff of the E/O publishing house. This study complements the results obtained by previous research by assessing Elena Ferrante’s role in modern Italian fiction following the publication of her latest 2019 novel, The Lying Life of Adults. In addition, the analysis of her similarities to Domenico Starnone was enhanced by means of a larger corpus of his novels, thus corroborating the outcome of previous research.
[Keywords: Elena Ferrante, contemporary Italian literature, authorship attribution, similarity measure, text clustering]