'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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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). Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, LRB and the Guardian. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. This is her first book.
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tapa dura. Condición: Bien. Batuman, Elif 1977- - Books and reading., Batuman, Elif 1977- - Travel., Russian literature - Appreciation., Russian literature - Appreciation., Literature., Literature: history & criticism, Memoirs, Literary studies: general, Travel writing, Russian, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary reference works, Travel & holiday, Russian literature - Appreciation., Russian literature - Appreciation., Russian literature - Appreciation., Bibliography The possessed : adventures with Russian books and the people who read them Granta Publications. London. 2011. 20 cm. 298 pages. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Elif Batuman. [Adventures with Russian books and the people who read them. ]. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. First issued in paperback: 2012. Includes bibliographical references. Contents Babel in California -- Summer in Samarkand -- Who killed Tolstoy? -- Summer in Samarkand (continued) -- The house of ice -- Summer in Samarkand (conclusion) -- The possessed . ISBN: 9781783784516 (pbk.) (=2781810=) LD126. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2781810
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