Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. The Idiot is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
发表于2025-01-27
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It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
评分It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
评分I said bye first, to be brave. I still thought bravery would be somehow rewarded." 一本完全没有想到自己会喜欢的书:絮絮叨叨,自传色彩明显,设定在Harvard——然而却一再从中看到一些逝去的片段,简直让人羞赧。 看完之后才意识到,其实阅读过程中一直在悬心期待一个ha...
评分It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
评分It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
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A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.
This is my fav novel in 2019. 弥补我被H拒的遗憾吧。
评分我喜欢Selin 也喜欢Ivan 但Selin和Ivan都不断地让我想起一个人 Selin好像一直处在低落的情绪状态里 而Ivan则是对什么都无所谓的样子 我喜欢他们的email往来 像自说自话又像一个人的想法未经任何曲解抵达了另一个人的心里 可能就是这种奇怪的chillness让我在不断地想要放弃中又继续了下去 但今晚我真的太悲伤了 我决定不要再继续看下去了 因为我早就决定再也不要想起那个人了 也可能 是这本书提醒了我有些情绪我真的无法再次承受
评分太everyday mundane了 就算是harvard也看不下去
评分so much ideas and personality blended seamlessly into the narrative
评分The book was shortlisted for this year's Pulitzer Prize. You'v got to be kidding me right? Only if narcissism can be considered aesthetics. Only if you like Facebooking everything you do/feel. But I am not Oprah Winfrey. Even if I were, could Oprah Winfrey show be considered literary? What a piece of joke.
The Idiot 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书