![]() ![]() Now she’s continued this project in a long and enjoyably literary novel, The Idiot.Īt the start of the book, the autobiographical heroine Selin has just arrived as an undergraduate at Harvard and is worrying about how to live. ![]() After years as a graduate student of Russian literature, she decided to challenge this by writing an account of her own haphazard attempt to live with and through books. Literature since Don Quixote had been seen as false and sterile disconnected from lived experience. D o events matter more when witnessed in real life than in books? Does language necessarily render experience second-hand? In her first book, The Possessed, New Yorker journalist Elif Batuman complained that as an incipient novelist she was always being told to eschew books and focus on life. ![]()
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