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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them language hand-illustrated lineworkOne of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year From the author of Either Or and The Idiot, Elif Batumans The Possessed presents the true but unlikely stories of lives devotedAbsurdly! Melancholically! Beautifully!to the Russian Classics. No one who read Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. "Babel in California" told the true story of various human destinies intersecting at Stanford University during a conference about the