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  • The Possessed

  • Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
  • By: Elif Batuman
  • Narrated by: Elif Batuman
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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The Possessed

By: Elif Batuman
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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.

©2012 Elif Batuman (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
Adventure Travel Biographies & Memoirs Literary History & Criticism Russian & Soviet Funny
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Like nothing I’ve listened to before

This book is dream-like, it’s a sweet and transparent recount of the author’s clearheaded adventures in literary academia. Her narration is soft and sweet and infuses the text with self-effacing melancholy. Five stars.

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