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.
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.
發表於2025-02-24
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故事梗概非常簡單:90年代,一位18歲剛入學的哈佛新生,斷斷續續寫日記般記錄她的大一生活,在平淡無奇的日子裏思考文字語言的藝術性,真實生活,和愛。 如書的標題,主人公Selin覺得自己是傻子的原因來自她一直的迷惘:到底什麼是真實?文字語言裏包含的更深層次的思考,不同...
評分故事梗概非常簡單:90年代,一位18歲剛入學的哈佛新生,斷斷續續寫日記般記錄她的大一生活,在平淡無奇的日子裏思考文字語言的藝術性,真實生活,和愛。 如書的標題,主人公Selin覺得自己是傻子的原因來自她一直的迷惘:到底什麼是真實?文字語言裏包含的更深層次的思考,不同...
評分I said bye first, to be brave. I still thought bravery would be somehow rewarded." 一本完全沒有想到自己會喜歡的書:絮絮叨叨,自傳色彩明顯,設定在Harvard——然而卻一再從中看到一些逝去的片段,簡直讓人羞赧。 看完之後纔意識到,其實閱讀過程中一直在懸心期待一個ha...
評分故事梗概非常簡單:90年代,一位18歲剛入學的哈佛新生,斷斷續續寫日記般記錄她的大一生活,在平淡無奇的日子裏思考文字語言的藝術性,真實生活,和愛。 如書的標題,主人公Selin覺得自己是傻子的原因來自她一直的迷惘:到底什麼是真實?文字語言裏包含的更深層次的思考,不同...
評分故事梗概非常簡單:90年代,一位18歲剛入學的哈佛新生,斷斷續續寫日記般記錄她的大一生活,在平淡無奇的日子裏思考文字語言的藝術性,真實生活,和愛。 如書的標題,主人公Selin覺得自己是傻子的原因來自她一直的迷惘:到底什麼是真實?文字語言裏包含的更深層次的思考,不同...
圖書標籤: 文學 女性 美國 小說 美國文學 大學生 英文原版 Harvard
呃,形式>>>>>>>內容。文字很漂亮很嚴謹,但是感覺看下來記不住啥。有些像是“應試作文”????
評分陪Selin絮絮叨叨瞭這麼久 竟然有一天真的結束瞭 今晚一氣兒讀完瞭一百多頁 突然很失落 像是在做一場漫長的告彆 這個學期開學的那段日子 每天讀這本 就像在跟著她一起在Harvard走 一起上課 一起跟朋友嘮嗑 一起暗戀 一起失眠 一起心痛著 有人嫌棄這本書沒什麼重點嘮嘮叨叨 可就是這些細枝末節的事情 纔讓人真的走進瞭她的生活 感覺她就像是你身邊的某個少女 沉默寡言 可擁有自己的宇宙 愛情的part很少 可真的紮心 她和Ivan最後一晚的talk 第二天的告彆 看得我心都碎瞭 每個人都有過這樣的時刻 都有過這樣把心交給彆人 可最終得不到迴應的時刻 這一切都太真實瞭 真的謝謝作者可以寫齣這樣的作品
評分在brown的最後半年讀完瞭一半,還挺有趣的。我發現我這一年為數不多的閱讀基本都是女作傢寫的關於女性的書籍。
評分又一本讀不下去的小說,她的生活中嵌入發生在俄羅斯的情節?我已經要徹底告彆小說這個形式瞭嗎。
評分Prefer the Possessed to this one; if I want ironic navel-gazing as the theme, better it be as a grad student.
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