“The Possessed” Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, by Elif Batuman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010
A small diary of the post graduate student is brilliantly written in English by an American writer Elif Batuman in 2010.The topics mentioned in the Contents are: Babel in California, Summer in Samarkand, Who Killed Tolstoy?, The House of Ice, the Possessed. The only reader of the Russian great authors here is Miss Batuman herself….