The Possessed
(Sprache: Englisch)
The true story of one woman¿s intellectual and sentimental education and her strange encounters with others devoted ¿ absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! ¿ to the Russian classics.
Opening with a description of a conference about Isaac Babel in...
Opening with a description of a conference about Isaac Babel in...
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The true story of one woman¿s intellectual and sentimental education and her strange encounters with others devoted ¿ absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! ¿ to the Russian classics.
Opening with a description of a conference about Isaac Babel in California at which various destinies intersect, Elif Batuman follows the footsteps of her favourite authors both literally and metaphorically, searching for the answers to the big questions. She investigates a possible murder at Tolstoy¿s ancestral estate, travels to Samarkand, and St Petersburg; retraces Pushkin¿s wanderings in the Caucasus; learns why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and sees an 18th-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously full of an infectious love for literature.
Opening with a description of a conference about Isaac Babel in California at which various destinies intersect, Elif Batuman follows the footsteps of her favourite authors both literally and metaphorically, searching for the answers to the big questions. She investigates a possible murder at Tolstoy¿s ancestral estate, travels to Samarkand, and St Petersburg; retraces Pushkin¿s wanderings in the Caucasus; learns why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and sees an 18th-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously full of an infectious love for literature.
Autoren-Porträt von Elif Batuman
ELIF BATUMAN was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper¿s and the Guardian, and she has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer¿s Award. This is her first book.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Elif Batuman
- 2011, 297 Seiten, Maße: 14,6 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1847083137
- ISBN-13: 9781847083135
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for "The Possessed" “In her comic, poignant, beguiling book, Batuman succeeds marvelously in illuminating her version of love.” —Reese Kwon, "Virginia"" Quarterly Review "“At every step along the way, Batuman’s observations are wonderfully vivid.” —Julia Keller, "Chicago"" Tribune "“Odd and oddly profound . . . Among the charms of Ms. Batuman’s prose is her fond, funny way of describing the people around her . . . Perhaps Ms. Batuman’s best quality as a writer though—beyond her calm, lapidary prose—is the winsome and infectious delight she feels in the presence of literary genius and beauty. She’s the kind of reader who sends you back to your bookshelves with a sublime buzz in your head. You want to feel what she’s feeling.” —Dwight Garner, "The New York Times Book Review "“It’s not surprising that some people never get over these books, and Batuman, for
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