Elif Batuman and Merve Emre: Either/Or

Elif Batuman, author of 'The Possessed' and 'The Idiot', talks to Merve Emre about her latest novel 'Either/Or'. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a heart-breaking and hilarious coming-of-age story by one of our most consistently thought-provoking writers.
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Here's the reading list they refer to:
Pushkin, Eugene Onegin
André Breton, Nadja
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Chekhov, Stories
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Luce Irigaray, In the Beginning, She Was
Adrienne Rich, Poems
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[@jasmithaarvind]

Always a pleasure listening to Elif Batuman speak! And Merve Emre as well

[@christopherpuckler2143]

Elif Batuman is mentioning Hester Albachs literary biography of ‘Nadja’ published by Actes-Sud in 2009: Léona, héroïne du surréalisme.

[@janxmcganx]

Wonderful interview, thank you!

[@LoyalFriend62]

I congratulate those who (for many good reasons) choose not to bring children into this world. I am 62. I decided not to father any children at 18 (when I was living in Ankara, Turkey). I am proud that I remained vocal about my opposition to human population growth. (I hope to plant many trees, edible plants, and enable whales, elephants, tigers, pandas, cheetahs, ... to propagate.)

[@ingenerchik]

An absolute nonesense of a book.