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发表于2025-03-29
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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.
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. The Idiot is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
又一本讀不下去的小說,她的生活中嵌入發生在俄羅斯的情節?我已經要徹底告彆小說這個形式瞭嗎。
評分很細碎的大學生活,室友、選課、傢教、誌願活動等等,當然還有少不瞭的暗戀情節。文筆詼諧,讀來忍俊不禁。Selin上俄語課,和話癆Svetlana交換意見,和Ivan通過郵件交流思想,去匈牙利教當地人英語…所有的主要情節都與「語言」這個母題有關,但故事發展到最後的高潮,Selin和Ivan的深夜交談,暴露瞭「語言」的無力。「I hadn't learned what I wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.」Selin透過郵件暗戀的Ivan在現實生活中不能和她在一起,屏幕的對話再怎麼深刻,看似delicate的關係實際上脆弱無比。此外還很有意思的一個側麵是大學生Selin作為一名女性的成長。
評分全程都會期待和Ivan會有個happy ending 最後這樣就結束瞭…
評分When you have power you write a novel for yourself. This is that kind of a novel.
評分Sex as a means to trivialize - uneven texture of time - which bit is real life? The extraordinary or the ordinary - the ennui of the privileged
It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
評分故事梗概非常简单:90年代,一位18岁刚入学的哈佛新生,断断续续写日记般记录她的大一生活,在平淡无奇的日子里思考文字语言的艺术性,真实生活,和爱。 如书的标题,主人公Selin觉得自己是傻子的原因来自她一直的迷惘:到底什么是真实?文字语言里包含的更深层次的思考,不同...
評分I said bye first, to be brave. I still thought bravery would be somehow rewarded." 一本完全没有想到自己会喜欢的书:絮絮叨叨,自传色彩明显,设定在Harvard——然而却一再从中看到一些逝去的片段,简直让人羞赧。 看完之后才意识到,其实阅读过程中一直在悬心期待一个ha...
評分It kind of fell down when I went to the end, about Sonya’s journey in the Hungarian countryside. Nevertheless, it’s still a refreshing novel, and you hardly get tired of it. Some of Sonya’s feelings towards Ivan struck me with great resemblance. She seem...
評分I said bye first, to be brave. I still thought bravery would be somehow rewarded." 一本完全没有想到自己会喜欢的书:絮絮叨叨,自传色彩明显,设定在Harvard——然而却一再从中看到一些逝去的片段,简直让人羞赧。 看完之后才意识到,其实阅读过程中一直在悬心期待一个ha...
The Idiot pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025