Elif Batuman, The Idiot
艾丽芙•巴特曼《白痴》
Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives at Harvard in 1995 – at the dawn of email – ready to take on all intellectual challenges that come her way. She makes friends with Svetlana, a Serbian classmate, and becomes close with Ivan, a Hungarian upperclassman. Thanks to Ivan, she spends the summer after her freshman year in Europe, with a job teaching English in Hungarian villages. Seline is open-minded and adventurous (“I got on a random tram to see where it went,” she notes during a visit to Budapest). Batuman’s sardonic wit makes for a delectable unfolding of Selin’s experience of love, life and language.
赛琳是一位土耳其移民的女儿,她在1995年,电子邮件刚诞生的时候,来到哈佛大学,准备迎接学业上的各种挑战。她跟班里来自塞尔维亚的同学Svetlana成为了朋友,跟一位匈牙利上层男士Ivan关系变得亲密。因为Ivan的关系,赛琳在大一之后的那个暑假去了欧洲,在一个匈牙利村子里教英语。赛琳思想开放又很有冒险精神(她在记录一次布达佩斯之旅时写道:“我随便坐上了一辆电车,就想看看它往哪儿开”)。巴特曼的冷幽默智慧让赛琳的爱情、生活以及语言经历以一种令人愉悦的方式展开。
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