The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read The - Brossura

Batuman, Elif

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783784512 ISBN 13: 9781783784516

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2018

Riassunto

'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she met the superfans... Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer's strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted - absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! - to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Tolstoy to Dostoevsky with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed is comic, humane, charming, poignant and full of an infectious love for literature. 'Dazzlingly good... Very bookish, very clever and very funny... A preposterously engaging volume' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph 'The highest compliment you can pay such a book is that it sends you back to the original authors refreshed. I can go one higher - I found myself simply wanting to read more from Elif Batuman' Evening Standard 'An intoxicating mix of travel memoir, autobiography, literary criticism and philosophy... Charming and hilarious' Daily Telegraph

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'Wildly original, creatively rambling... the funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter'--The Times

'Dazzlingly good ... very bookish, very clever and very funny ... [The Possessed is] a preposterously engaging volume'--Sunday Telegraph

'Deeply clever and very funny'--Guardian

'Hilarious, wide-ranging, erudite, and memorable'--New York Times Book Review

'A vividly engaging travelogue-cum-memoir ... Batuman is an astute observer with a terrific sense of humour and immense bravado' ----Irish Times

L'autore

Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humour, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her novel, The Idiot, was published in 2017.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1783784512
• ISBN 13: 9781783784516
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile