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2024-04-28
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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...
評分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...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 文學 女性 美國 小說 美國文學 大學生 英文原版 Harvard
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。
評分大段大段的對話,有點看不下去。讀完有點讓人對語言喪失希望。
評分大段大段的對話,有點看不下去。讀完有點讓人對語言喪失希望。
評分全程都會期待和Ivan會有個happy ending 最後這樣就結束瞭…
評分Language is the greatest firewall.
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