Elif Batuman Quotes

It Was Hard To Decide On A Literature Course. Everything The Professors Said Seemed To Be Somehow Beside The Point. You Wanted To Know Why Anna Had To Die, And Instead They Told You That 19th Century Russian Landowners Felt Conflicted About Whether They Were Really A Part Of Europe. The Implication Was That It Was Somehow Naive To Want To Talk About Anything Interesting, Or To Think That You Would Ever Know Anything Important.

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