![]() ![]() ![]() Lenù’s narration about her friend also suggests that Lila is intensely angry and self-critical beneath her withdrawn, stoic exterior. Lenù portrays Lila as sharp-witted, steel-willed, and seemingly fearless-both a troublemaker and an self-taught learner from a young age. The news of Lila’s disappearance, which the now-middle-aged Elena writes off as Lila “overdoing it as usual,” is what motivates Lenù to spitefully write the memoir that becomes the narrative of My Brilliant Friend. She’s known to her family as Rafaella and to most of her friends as Lina-but to her lifelong friend Elena Greco, she is and always has been “Lila.” In the present day, decades after the main events of the story, Lila has mysteriously disappeared from her home without a trace-not even her adult son knows where she is. Lila Cerullo is Fernando and Nunzia Cerullo’s daughter and Rino Cerullo’s sister. ![]()
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