{"id":13398,"date":"2022-06-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=13398"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:21:58","slug":"either-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=13398","title":{"rendered":"Either\/Or"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elif Batuman is another of those writers – and there are enough – known to me through various long forms of journalism but whose books I haven’t read. But, having just listened to her<\/a> and been reminded, I am encouraged to remedy this omission in the near future. Batuman’s recently released novel, Either\/Or<\/em>, has been very well received, and I have always had a penchant for the bildungsroman<\/em> (as do some whose bildung<\/em> only ever got so tend to have), or as which it was so described somewhere. This new work is, in fact, a sequel to her 2017 – also highly praised – book, The Idiot<\/em>, and so I may have to read that first – if only to find out what Dostoevsky<\/a> and Kierkegaard<\/a> have in common, and what they both have in common with Batuman and her protagonist (be they not somehow the same!). Anyway, below is a Kindle preview that entices, and there is more information on the publisher’s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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