6/29/2023 0 Comments Elif batuman the idiot review![]() But Elif Batuman’s The Idiot (2017) novelises this very mundanity, capturing the humble messiness of new adulthood. The average university student murders nothing but their sleep schedule, and the closest they get to electrifying reanimation is a double-shot espresso (I withhold comment on alcoholic tendencies). ![]() ![]() Dark, dramatic, elitist-it’s easy to see how this subgenre’s cultish status bled into the mainstream, leaving hordes of students disappointed by their comparatively mild tertiary life. Another century before that, in southern Germany, an organic chemistry student brings to life an eight-foot-tall corpse, thereby condemning his loved ones to utter devastation. Fifty years prior, a young and beautiful English lord goes to Oxford holding a teddy bear and promptly falls prey to dipsomania. One windy afternoon in 1980s Vermont, five well-dressed classicists shove their friend off a cliff. ![]()
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