![]() ![]() I knew that was what a person was supposed to be doing, but I didn’t know why, or how.” All Selin knows for sure is that she will be a novelist, but she’s still trying to figure out how to do that, too, and she sees the problem of how to live and the question of how to write as two sides of the same dilemma. Walking to the library on a Saturday night, she encounters small groups of students, “the girls laughing hysterically and collapsing against the guys’ chests. When she’s not checking her email, hoping for a message from him, she’s reading Kierkegaard and André Breton, looking for clues about the kind of person she wants to be. It’s 1996, and Selin is embarking on her fall semester with a broken heart and a lingering obsession with Ivan, the mathematician she’d fallen in love with as a first-year student. The heroine of The Idiot (2017), Batuman's Pulitzer Prize finalist, continues to interrogate the intersection of art and identity during her sophomore year at Harvard. ![]()
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