![]() ![]() You wrote The Idiot in your twenties-a decade or so ago. We spoke about her new novel, how an academic understanding of classic literature affects her approach to fiction, and the rise of insurance in the 18 th Century. She has written about contemporary trends in American fiction in publications like n+1 and London Review of Books. As a freshman at Harvard in 1995, Selin is overwhelmed by her newfound freedom and its possibilities.īatuman skillfully shows how the brilliance of youth stems from its receptivity to the world’s oddities and contradictions, and how a journey filled with disillusionment can yield flashes of beauty, wonder, and insight.īatuman is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Elif Batuman’s The Idiot is a hilarious, poignant, and deviously wise novel, couched in the late-adolescent sensibilities of its narrator, Selin. ![]()
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