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I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

~Elif Batuman

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The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

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The problems in the Russian novel are quite similar to the problems of Turkish nationalism and Turkish culture, which was something that I grew up thinking didn't affect me very much because my parents didn't really talk about it.

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Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.

~Elif Batuman

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If you are in a breakup, you might as well go all the way and spend the summer in Samarkand, with no air-conditioning, learning a language you have no use for. At least it adds some romance to a depressing situation.

~Elif Batuman

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By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.

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A lot of fiction doesn't answer a question that any reasonable person would ever ask.

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Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

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Topics: Got Interested Literature Me Means Russian

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The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.

~Elif Batuman

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I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written by Aleksandra Marinina, the former chief of police.

~Elif Batuman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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