The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by:
Elif Batuman (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781847083135 (1847083137)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Granta Books (UK)
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Books About Books,
Russia,
Russian Literature
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.
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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