The Possessed - Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them

Elif Batuman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2010

296 páginas

9h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780374532185

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 Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously, full of an infectious love for literature.