Book Review: 'The Idiot,' By Elif Batuman : NPR
Elif Batuman has sung the praises of "long novels, pointless novels," and she puts her money where her mouth is with The Idiot, a tale of youthful confusion that can be both boring and beautiful.
Review Book Reviews Both Pointless And Playful, 'The Idiot' Is Like A Long Dream March 18, 2017 7:00 AM ET By Annalisa Quinn The Idiot By Elif Batuman Purchase Book Purchase Buy Featured Book Title The Idiot By Elif Batuman Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Amazon Independent Bookstores Elif Batuman is on record as disliking "crisp" fiction, fiction that streamlines, that asks to be compared to apples, or whips. "Write long novels, pointless novels," she urges in an essay for n+1 . And she has. The Idiot is a long wander, a vague rummage, "as simultaneously absorbing and off-pu
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