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The Idiot / Elif BATUMAN / London : JONATHAN CAPE (2017)
Titre : The Idiot Type de document : Livre Auteurs : Elif BATUMAN, Auteur Editeur : London : JONATHAN CAPE Année de publication : 2017 Importance : 422 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-910702-69-7 Prix : 16.50 EUR Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Management
LITTERATURERésumé : Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, teaches ESL and spends a lot of time thinking about what language – and languages – can and cannot do.
Along the way she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary. The two conduct a hilarious relationship that culminates with Selin spending the summer teaching English in a Hungarian village and enduring a series of surprising excursions. Throughout her journeys, Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is.
At once clever and clueless, Batuman’s heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self.Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=229987 Exemplaires (2)
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