The Possessed Adventures with Russian Books People

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One of The Economist yevskian psychodrama that swirls around a magnetic grad student in the comp-lit department. Batuman is a superb storyteller with an eye for absurdist detail. Her pieces unfold like beguiling shaggy dog tales that blithely track her own misadventures into colorful exegeses of the fiction and biographies of the masters: she's the rare writer who can make the concept of "mimetic desire" vivid and personal. If you've ever felt like you're living in a Russian novel and who hasn't? Batuman will show you why.