![]() ![]() Dear young writers, write with dignity, not in guilt. Do not be ashamed to grieve about personal things. In The Idiot, she has heeded the rallying cry she issued in n+1: 'Write long novels, pointless novels. Her compassion for the agony of those attempting to forge a connection through words is perceptive, intelligent, and funny. ![]() ![]() Batuman is virtuosic in articulating the internal workings of this moment. The Idiot Hardcover Maby Elif Batuman (Author) 4,094 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 45.49 20 Used from 7.07 4 New from 40.67 Paperback 13.39 12 Used from 11.04 9 New from 11. As idiosyncratic Hungarians continue to materialize, it begins to feel as though Batuman is giving us an object lesson in distinguishing between the tastefully modest craft of fiction and the ungainly ambition of literature. But this integration isn’t simply an intellectual process it’s what happens in all coming-of-age stories. In Batuman’s view, integrating the new and the familiar, the personal and the canonical, is precisely what the novel ought to do. A loose, baggy monster, full of irrelevant garbage and needless words - and all the richer for it - the book implicitly makes an argument for what a twenty-first-century novel might be. ![]()
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