Saturday, February 13, 2010

Wild and crazy ....

... 'The Possessed' by Elif Batuman. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Among the things literature's good for, Batuman illustrates, is to provide a small number of very smart people with academic ground that must be protected and peed all over, and thus with boundless opportunities to demonstrate the nature of human absurdity.

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