Much¹ attention has been paid to Naples as the setting of Elena Ferrante’s novels. But her tetralogy My Brilliant Friend (L’amica geniale 2011–2014) features a narrative frame set in the city of Turin. Turin is also the topographic background of her second novel, The Days of Abandonment (I giorni dell’abbandono, 2002; translated in English in 2005). In this article, I examine Ferrante’s spatial poetics by charting the walking routes of Olga, the narrator of The Days of Abandonment. I approach The Days of Abandonment as a spatial story, a narrative contingent on the protagonist’s walking in the city, on her body’s negotiating a hostile urban cityscape. I traverse the novel’s urban text punctuated by concrete sites––fountains and street intersections, urban signs and graffiti, public urinals and bronze monuments—to locate the novel’s narrative events on Turin’s map. The itineraries that I trace position Olga in a real-life topography that oppresses her body and psyche. This plotting of her body onto Turin’s map offers a topographic lens through which to explore urban space and culture as they inform the feminine physical and psychic landscapes in a contemporary Italian cityscape. Read through its itineraries and urban sites, The Days of Abandonment constitutes a feminine walking tour of Turin, mapping the intersections of women’s bodies and cityscapes.

¹作为埃琳娜·费兰特小说的背景，那不勒斯受到了很多关注。但她的四部曲《我的聪明朋友》（L'amica geniale 2011-2014）以都灵市为背景。都灵也是她的第二部小说《被遗弃的日子》（I giorni dell'abbandono，2002；2005年译成英文）的地形背景。在这篇文章中，我通过绘制《被遗弃的日子》的叙述者奥尔加的步行路线来研究费兰特的空间诗学。我接近被遗弃的日子作为一个空间故事，以主人公在城市中的行走，以她的身体在充满敌意的城市景观中的交涉为前提的叙事。我遍历小说的城市文本，中间有具体地点——喷泉和街道交叉口、城市标志和涂鸦、公共小便池和青铜纪念碑——以在都灵的地图上定位小说的叙事事件。我追踪的行程将奥尔加定位在一个压迫她身体和心灵的现实地形中。她的身体在都灵地图上的绘制提供了一个地形镜头，通过它可以探索城市空间和文化，因为它们为当代意大利城市景观中的女性身体和心理景观提供信息。阅读其行程和城市景点，废弃的日子 构成了都灵的女性徒步之旅，描绘了女性身体和城市景观的交汇点。