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Elif Batuman
Estados Unidos


1977-


“I stopped believing that ‘theory’ had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn’t the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed?”

Mi recomendación para hoy es  Elif Batuman (Estados Unidos, 1977) . Batuman hace de su amor por la literatura el corazón de su obra. En su primer libro, The Possessed: adventures with Russian books and the people who read them, acompañamos a una estudiante de doctorado mientras se sumerge, se pierde y se encuentra en la literatura rusa.


Es una maravilla leer con ella a Tolstoi, a Dostoievski, así como también la forma en la que describe al ambiente académico. Algo parecido pasa con The Idiot, segundo libro de Batuman, que fue finalista del premio Pulitzer el 2018. Ambos se encuentran disponibles en español.


Algunas citas: “I stopped believing that ‘theory’ had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn’t the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed?”

 

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