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The Idiot
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Publisher's Summary
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 that they entail.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-21-17
Fascinating point of view
The author's voice and experiences are interestingly objective - intelligent, restrained and artifice- free. If you require a plot-driven story, this isn't the one for you. If, though, you'd like to get out of your head and into the author's, then dive on in!
10 of 10 people found this review helpful
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- Lengthy
- 07-04-17
Disappointing narration
What disappointed you about The Idiot?
The narrator is the author and she should stick to writing. Her flat narration ruined the book for me. It was like someone telling jokes who ruins a good punch line every time.
What did you like best about this story?
I think if I read it that it would be funny. Half way through the book I decided to read it instead of listening to the rest.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Elif Batuman?
Anyone with more dramatic flair or sense of humor.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
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- Ian Jobling
- Oakton, VA USA
- 05-19-17
Captures the strangeness of being
This account of a young woman's first year at Harvard and summer trip to Hungary captures the random directionlessness of life and of the mind and also the human foreignness to language. Batuman captures the feeling that words are incapable of describing our experience and that no one even begins to understand this problem. If you're looking for the kind of "twisty plot" that is so common these days, you will be disappointed. But if you are ready for a new dimension of existence to be revealed to you, this is the book.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
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- Susan Reiser
- 02-21-18
Narration awful. Dull, no emotion!
May be better to read. The narrator ruined it. Also, no plot. Read like a Junior High diary. Sorry to be so harsh but bad listen!!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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- Michael
- 05-15-17
Flawless
It's been a long time since I've enjoyed a book this much for language, thought and tone alone. Thanks, Elif Batuman.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-28-18
The perfect book
I thought reading “The Idiot” was the best things could get, but then I found “The Possessed”. After reading “The Possessed” I was relatively sure I had found the closest I could get to a soul in novel form. But then I heard Elif read her own words out loud and I knew I was wrong. If you don’t download this book you’re an idiot.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Allen
- Highland Village, TX United States
- 08-06-18
Great novel with an interesting point of view
I loved this novel. Not a lot happens, but the character is so engaging that I couldn't wait to keep reading. I am often wary when the author reads their own work, but Elif Batuman did a fantastic job of embodying the character. The style of the novel reminded me of Miranda July, one of my favorite authors.
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- Sarah
- 01-27-18
Truly an original
This story was honest and detailed, both intellectually complex and childishly simple. It perfectly embodies that weird youthful love of two incomplete people, somehow both selfish and infinitely generous.
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- patrick morris
- 01-13-18
Compelling and affecting 'voice'
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- Jordyn
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Is there anything you would change about this book?
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