Description: Product Description : The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them One of The Economists 2011 Books of the YearFrom the author of EitherOr and The Idiot Elif Batumans The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devotedAbsurdly Melancholically Beautifullyto the Russian ClassicsNo one who read Batumans first article in the journal n1 will ever forget it Babel in California told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel Over the course of several pages Batuman managed to misplace Babels last living relatives at the San Francisco airport uncover Babels secret influence on the making of King Kong and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable comic humane ironic charming poignant and completely unpretentiously full of love for literatureBatumans subsequent piecesfor The New Yorker Harpers Magazine and the London Review of Books have made her one of the most soughtafter and admired writers of her generation and its best traveling companion In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoys ancestral estate We go with her to Stanford Switzerland and St Petersburg retrace Pushkins wanderings in the Caucasus learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying and see an eighteenthcentury ice palace reconstructed on the NevaLove and the novel the individual in history the existential plight of the graduate student all find their place in The Possessed Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of her favorite authors Batuman searches for the answers to the big questions in the details of lived experience combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Pushkin to Platonov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influenceincluding her own( it is an used product )
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Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
UPC: 9780374532185
MPN: black 090apse9d
Model No: black 090apse9d
Country of Origin: USA United States
Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 5.5X0.85X8.2
ISBN-10: 374532184
ISBN-13: 9780374532185
SKU: SONG0374532184
Edition: First Edition
No. of Pages: 304
Type: Books
Book Title: Possessed : Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Topic: Russian & Former Soviet Union, Books & Reading
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Elif Batuman
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
