The Possessed Pdf Summary
No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article (in the journal n+1) 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 Babel’s last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel’s 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 literature.
Batuman’s subsequent pieces—for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and the London Review of Books— have made her one of the most sought-after and admired writers of her generation, and its best traveling companion. In The Possessed we watch her investigate a possible murder at Tolstoy’s ancestral estate. We go with her to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg; retrace Pushkin’s wanderings in the Caucasus; learn why Old Uzbek has one hundred different words for crying; and see an eighteenth-century ice palace reconstructed on the Neva.
Love 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 influence—including her own.
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About Elif Batuman Author Of Girl of The Possessed pdf Book
Elif Batuman Author Of Girl of The Possessed pdf Book is an American Writer, academic, and journalist. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught.
Batuman is currently the writer-in-residence at Koç University. While in graduate school, she studied the Uzbek language in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Her dissertation, titled, “The Windmill and the Giant: Double-Entry Bookkeeping in the Novel,” is about the process of social research and solitary construction undertaken by novelists. In 2007, she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. In February 2010, she published her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which details her experiences as a graduate student.
She has also published pieces in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and n+1. Her writing has been described as “almost helplessly epigrammatical.” She resides in Twin Peaks, San Francisco.
The Possessed pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition (February 16, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374532184
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374532185
- Item Weight : 9.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.9 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #104,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #13 in General Turkey Travel Guides
- #347 in Essays (Books)
- #4,494 in Memoirs (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.1 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
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