The Possessed

Elif Batuman was born in New York City and grew up in New Jersey. She now lives in Twin Peaks, San Francisco (near the radio tower). She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Prize. She teaches literature at Stanford University.

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:Elif Batuman

页数:304

出版时间:2010-2-16

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780374532185

图书标签:文学黑色幽默美国文学文学批评传记美国游记散文

Elif Batuman’s voice—unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature—has made her one of the most admired writers of her generation. 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 takes her reader to Stanford, Switzerland, and St. Petersburg as she investigates a possible murder at Tolstoy's ancestral estate. The student devoted to the Russian classics will 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.

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.

用户评价

作者好可爱w!

译此书的过程很愉快。

讲老托，老陀，巴别尔，和彼得堡的冰宫殿的几篇甚好，斯坦福比较文学系的故事也很神奇，乌兹别克的夏天那几篇没读出味道。

Quite engrossing read, and made me laugh out loud in many places.

Quite engrossing read, and made me laugh out loud in many places.