I posseduti. Storie di grandi romanzieri russi e dei loro lettori - Elif Batuman, Eva Kampmann • BookLikes (ISBN:8806206826)

I posseduti. Storie di grandi romanzieri russi e dei loro lettori

by: Eva Kampmann (author) Elif Batuman (author)

Format: hardcover

ISBN: 9788806206826 (8806206826)

Publish date: 2012

Publisher: Einaudi

Pages no: 320

Edition language: Italian

Category:

Non Fiction, Travel, Humor, Autobiography, Memoir, Writing, Essays, Literature, Cultural, Criticism, Books About Books, Russia, Russian Literature

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Brain Gourmet rated it

9 years ago

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text The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Just another one of those books with long, 'original' titles which in truth should have been called 'Me, Myself and I'. There were some witty passages throughout, but I think it should be illegal to advertise one product and sell another.

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Never Read Passively rated it

13 years ago

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text The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

I got bored of it and stopped with 50 or 60 pages left. The Possessed is only marginally about adventures or Russian books. Instead it consists mostly of travelogue and a series of Elif's personal stories about her experiences in grad school, with a vague thread of Russianness connecting them all. S...

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