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Элиф Батуман

Elif Batuman

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  • Either/Or Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 9781529115932
    Год издания: 2023
    Издательство: Vintage Books
    The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
    Selin is the luckiest person in her family:
    The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer...
    On the plus side, her life feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy, abandoned women in them? And how does one live a life as interesting as a novel - a life worthy of becoming a novel - without turning into a crazy, abandoned woman oneself?
  • Either/Or Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 9781787333864
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Jonathan Cape
    Язык: Английский
    Selin is the Luckiest Person in Her Family:
    The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin's elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivan's ex-girlfriend now trying to get in touch with her?
    On the plus side, her life feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy, abandoned women in them? How does one live a life as interesting as a novel-a life worthy of becoming a novel-without becoming a crazy, abandoned woman oneself?
    Guided by her literature syllabus and by her more worldly and confident peers, Selin reaches certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, and resolves to execute them in practice - no matter the cost. Next on the list: international travel.
    Unfolding with the propulsive logic and intensity of youth, Either / Or is a landmark novel by one of our most brilliant writers. Hilarious, revelatory, and unforgettable, its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last page.
  • The Idiot Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 9780099583172
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Vintage Books
    Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is:
    - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations
    - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante
    - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying
    - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood
    But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...
  • Either Or Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 0525557598, 978-0525557593
    Год издания: 2022
    Издательство: Penguin Press
    Язык: Английский
    Selin is the luckiest person in her family: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it’s sophomore year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer. Why did Selin’s elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivan’s weird ex-girlfriend now trying to get in touch with Selin? On the plus side, it feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy abandoned women in them? How does one live a life as interesting as a novel—a life worthy of becoming a novel—without becoming a crazy abandoned woman oneself?

    Guided by her literature syllabus and by her more worldly and confident peers, Selin reaches certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex, and resolves to execute them in practice—no matter what the cost. Next on the list: international travel.

    Unfolding with the propulsive logic and intensity of youth, Either/Or is a landmark novel by one of our most brilliant writers. Hilarious, revelatory, and unforgettable, its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last page.
  • Идиот(ка) Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 978-5-17-112416-8
    Год издания: 2019
    Издательство: АСТ
    Язык: Русский

    Американка Селин поступает в Гарвард. Ее жизнь круто меняется — и все вокруг требует от нее повзрослеть. Селин робко нащупывает дорогу в незнакомое. Ее ждут новые дисциплины, высокомерные преподаватели, пугающе умные студенты — и бесчисленное множество смыслов, которые она искренне не понимает, словно простодушный герой Достоевского. Главным испытанием для Селин становится любовь — нелепая любовь к таинственному венгру Ивану… Элиф Батуман — славист, специалист по русской литературе. Роман "Идиот" основан на реальных событиях, в нем описывается неповторимый юношеский опыт писательницы. Высоко оцененный критиками, роман был назван лучшей…

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  • L'idiota Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 8806217577
    Год издания: 2018
    Издательство: Einaudi
    Язык: Итальянский
    Selin ha diciotto anni e grandi aspettative, ma non è una diciottenne come tutti, o almeno così crede. Lei è la ragazza prodigio che ha letto sempre un libro più degli altri, e pensa di aver già fatto ogni esperienza possibile attraverso le pagine dei romanzi che ama. Ma al primo anno di università scoprirà che purtroppo le persone non sono personaggi e forse le certezze dei libri non sono poi così certe. Scoprirà che l'amore è più strano, banale eppure complesso di quanto si potrà mai leggere. Scoprirà di essere un'idiota, come tutti.

    Nel 1995, mentre il mondo impara a usare le email e a comunicare via internet, Selin è una matricola a Harvard. Per lei comunicare, con o senza internet, è sempre stato un problema. Il suo rapporto con il mondo passa soltanto attraverso i romanzi: e così tutto della vita universitaria le pare assurdo. Il cavo Ethernet della connessione di dipartimento serve per impiccarsi? Se si compra tequila per la festa, come mai anche il sale? E perché nessuno si rende conto di desiderare solo ciò che non può avere? Quando però incontra Ivan tutto cambia. E per la prima volta capisce quanto è bizzarro e doloroso il desiderio e quanto è difficile ottenere ciò che si vuole davvero. Elif Batuman fa, con una grazia e un umorismo davvero unici, qualcosa di straordinario: il racconto della giovinezza. Di quel tempo, cioè, in cui ogni esperienza ci viene incontro come se fosse la prima volta, di quell'epoca della vita (l'unica) in cui impariamo tutto, sempre, in ogni momento. Ma anche di quell'età di cui, come diceva Proust, non ripeteremmo nulla, di quei giorni che rivisti oggi, per quanto offuscati dal filtro della nostalgia, ci appaiono come una lunga e disperante sequela di errori, passi falsi, malintesi. Di idiozie. Un tempo pieno di noia e giri a vuoto, ma che allora ci sembrava pieno di senso, decisivo, eccitante (domanda: quindi cos'è che rende significativi certi fatti della vita e altri meno? Non sarà forse il modo in cui li raccontiamo, dice Batuman, il modo in cui ne facciamo letteratura?) Batuman è una delle scrittrici più intelligenti, taglienti e argute che ci siano in circolazione. L'idiota è il suo primo romanzo ed è stato inserito in praticamente tutte le liste dei libri migliori dell'anno, oltre a essere stato finalista al Pulitzer, al Women's Prize for Fiction e ad altri premi. Ma c'è una cosa che questa lista di riconoscimenti non dice: L'idiota è il libro più divertente che potrete leggere quest'anno. Riassumendo, in questo libro il lettore appassionato e curioso troverà: i mixtape e le cassette musicali come accettabile forma di comunicazione sentimentale; l'emozione di un nuovo mezzo di comunicazione: l'email; una riflessione su come trasformiamo l'esperienza in romanzo; la semiotica e René Girard; Björk e Flaubert; il racconto di un amore infelice, quello con Ivan, e di un amore felice, quello con la letteratura; un'elegia per gli anni Novanta; la struggente, dolcissima nostalgia per la giovinezza e la gioiosa incredula constatazione che, grazie a Dio, alla giovinezza siamo sopravvissuti.
  • The Idiot Elif Batuman
    ISBN: 014311106X, 978-0143111061
    Год издания: 2018
    Издательство: Penguin Books
    Язык: Английский
    A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.

    The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.

    At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.

    With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.
  • Бесы. Приключения русской литературы и людей, которые ее читают Элиф Батуман
    ISBN: 978-5-17-111680-4
    Год издания: 2018
    Издательство: АСТ
    Язык: Русский

    "Лишний человек", "луч света в темном царстве", "среда заела", "декабристы разбудили Герцена"… Унылые литературные штампы. Многие из нас оставили знакомство с русской классикой в школьных годах — натянутое, неприятное и прохладное знакомство. Взрослые возвращаются к произведениям школьной программы лишь через много лет. И удивляются, и радуются, и влюбляются в то, что когда-то казалось невыносимой, неимоверной ерундой. Перед вами — история человека, который намного счастливее нас. Американка Элиф Батуман не ходила в русскую школу — она сама взялась за нашу классику и постепенно поняла, что обрела смысл жизни. Ее увлекательная и…

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  • The Idiot Elif Batuman
    ISBN: 1594205612, 9781594205613
    Год издания: 2017
    Издательство: Penguin Press
    Язык: Английский
    The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.

    At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
  • The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Elif Batuman
    ISBN: 1847083137, 978-1847083135
    Год издания: 2011
    Издательство: Granta Books
    Язык: Английский

    n her brilliant first book Elif Batuman takes the reader on a journey both literary and physical as she traces the evolution of her fascination with Russian literature across the globe and several centuries. This is a deeply funny, fiercely intelligent portrait of the not-always-rational pursuit of knowledge. Though Batuman lavishes attention on the specifics of her passion-and may indeed inspire you to spend the rest of this season holed up with a thick Russian novel-her book is really about the process of learning itself. It's a relatable, absorbing account of what it feels like to be infatuated with ideas, and to let them lead you to…

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  • The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them Elif Batuman
    ISBN: 0374532184, 978-0374532185
    Год издания: 2010
    Издательство: Farrar Straus Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Straus and Giroux
    Язык: Английский

    No one who read Elif 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 course of several pages, Batuman managed to misplace Babel’s last living relatives at the San Francisco airport, uncover Babel’s secret influence on the making of King Kong, and introduce her readers to a new voice that was unpredictable, comic, humane, ironic, charming, poignant, and completely, unpretentiously full of love for literature. Batuman’s subsequent pieces—for The New…

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