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Cargando... Either/Or: A Novel (edición 2023)por Elif Batuman (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. She's not for everyone, but she sure is for me. ( ) I want to read everything by Elif Batuman. I loved inhabiting Selin's world, her worldview became mine. Much like The Idiot, Either/Or has given me a lot to think about: my bilinguality, unpopular opinions, art, literature, friendships, boys, grammar. I kept delaying finishing the novel because that's how much I wanted to keep lingering in Selin's world. Good Writing as a Bad Habit Walter Benjamin's writings on child-play are even more impressive if we imagine he is doing a kind of Nabokovian-noticing of his own puerile experiences. More likely, he is observing the behavior of children and writing himself backward. Batuman's commentaries on the classics are impressive in that they strike us as precisely the A-level writing of a precocious college sophomore. How is Batuman able to write at that angle subtended by deeper-than-you-thought-but-not-too-deep interpretations. Likely she is benefiting from her students in her role as an instructor on literature (and that 80% of the structuring commentary is left out of the text). We already know that bright undergraduate who instinctually understands the chauvinist interpretations of Madame Bovary and our so-called "utilitarian moralists" to be false (brilliant), subsequently progressing to the insipid equivocation of Shakespeare and Intercourse (less brilliant), and followed by a vague perplexity on the subject of "littérature féminine" in the work of Irigaray and Cixous (not brilliant). Later on, no longer supported by the perennial refreshment of freshman (Sophomoric) interpretations, the author is writing about a trip to Turkey at an impossibly high level. A bad habit that she is always lapsing into good writing (the other being titling her books after more famous works), which we no longer find believable in context. ASIDE: Well-executed descriptions of intercourse and initial thoughts related to this. Per Heti, some people may be the great blow job artists of our age (but they, by virtue of the absurd, maintain this as an incognito). Few are willing to teach as Batuman does. College freshmen should not be made to read Kierkegaard. Beautifully blunt, simultaneously pseudo-intellectual and intellectual, hilarious, tenderhearted, witty... basically this novel is my perfect bildungsroman cup of tea. I don't think I've ever seen myself in a character as much as I see myself in Selin - constantly overthinking, constantly questioning, and constantly dissatisfied with the simplicity of life's answers and with herself for not figuring that out sooner - albeit I'm the less cool and less intelligent second edition. “There was something abstract and gentle about the experience of being ignored—a feeling of being spared, a known impossibility of anything happening—that was consonant with my understanding of love. In theory, of course, I knew that love could be reciprocated. It was a thing that happened, often, to other people. But I was unlike other people in so many ways.” sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin'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 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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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