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osprey_archer ([personal profile] osprey_archer) wrote 2021-12-08 02:54 pm (UTC)

Have you read Elif Batuman's The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them?

Maybe?? I feel like a few years ago I read someone's Russian Literature Memoir, and I thought it might have been the Groskop book but it wasn't, and it might be The Possessed but it probably isn't, and possibly I haven't read ANY books of this type before, and I only think I did because I definitely read a few books like this about Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, etc.

I wonder if someone has written a literary memoir about My Life in Les Miserables or Possibly French Literature More Generally. I should look into that. I'd read it.

I don't know that my love for Hutchins will be as deep and abiding as my love for Josephine Preston Peabody, but I am prepared to luxuriate in a crush for the length of this book!

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