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It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is deter�mined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycho�linguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian maths student in her Russian class. She spends the summer in the Hungarian countryside teaching English to village children, where sad and comic misunderstandings ensue. Full of the razor-sharp evocations of character and place that have long delighted readers of Batuman's non-fiction, The Idiot tackles literary ambition, female friend�ship, the American dream, Chomskian linguistics, the Russian novel and romantic love. 'There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul,' Proust once wrote, 'but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.'
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The Idiot, Elif Batuman
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- Rok vydania
- 2017
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- Titul
- The Idiot
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Elif Batuman
- Vydavateľ
- Jonathan Cape
- Rok vydania
- 2017
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 432
- ISBN10
- 1910702692
- ISBN13
- 9781910702697
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Historické téma, Romantika, Cestovanie, Humor, Láska, Súčasná literatúra, Priateľstvo, Súčasná romantika, USA, Vzťahy, Americká literatúra, Európa, Lingvistika, Dospievanie, Young adult romantika, Štúdium, Vysoká škola, univerzita, Prvá láska, Turecko, Maďarsko, Vysokoškoláci, Univerzitný román
- Prvé vydanie
- 2017
- Pôvodný názov
- The Idiot
- Hodnotenie
- 3,5 z 5
- Anotácia
- It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is deter�mined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycho�linguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian maths student in her Russian class. She spends the summer in the Hungarian countryside teaching English to village children, where sad and comic misunderstandings ensue. Full of the razor-sharp evocations of character and place that have long delighted readers of Batuman's non-fiction, The Idiot tackles literary ambition, female friend�ship, the American dream, Chomskian linguistics, the Russian novel and romantic love. 'There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul,' Proust once wrote, 'but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.'