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The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them / Elif Batuman.

The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them / Elif Batuman.
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ISBN 9781921656644 (paperback)
Name Batuman, Elif, 1977- author.
Title The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them / Elif Batuman.
Edition First edition.
Published Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2010.
©2010.
Description 297 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes First published: United States : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-297)
Contents Babel in California -- Summer in Samarkand -- Who killed Tolstoy? -- Summer in Samarkand (continued) -- The house of ice -- Summer in Samarkand (conclusion) -- The possessed.
Summary The Possessed draws on Elif Batuman's articles in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and n+1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with scholars devoted to classic Russian writers. In a series of intertwined essays about her life - and other people's lives - in the world of Russian literature and scholarship, Batuman has written a funny, smart and self-deprecating book about Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov and the academics who worship them. It is full of stories of ice palaces and giant apes, conference disasters and excursions into Uzbek poetry; but there is also wisdom, and deep appreciation of the great Russian novels. Elif Batuman is a true original.
Subjects Russian literature -- History and criticism
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