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

By Elif Batuman
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By Elif Batuman
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One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year

From the author of Either/Or and The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devoted—Absurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!—to the Russian Classics.

No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the enigmatic writer Isaac Babel. Over the...

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