a terrible and ghastly violation

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Gatti suggests that by creating this writer, with a background suitable to the works that she wanted to write, Raja was dishonouring her own mother, who, as Gatti, judged, was “really unique”. No doubt Ferrante didn’t actually want men telling her what she should really be writing about, as Gatti presumes to. Why would anyone want to be told that they were doing something bad and disrespectful by failing to write about their mother and her family? The obligation to write about and talk about her own family, and be defined at least in part by a terrible past, seems to me like something else that Ferrante would have wanted to free herself from. Gatti, however, has exercised his own perceived right to put Ferrante back where he can keep an eye on her. It is a terrible and ghastly violation.