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Elif Batuman rethinks Russian literature

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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How Did You Get Into Russian Literature?

The first Russian novel I read was Anna Karenina, which I read as a teenager in the 90s. What drew me to it was this feeling of human universal document and not at all a Russian one. The tradition starts with Pushkin and Pushkin's personal sensor is Tsar Nikolai. And you know, Dostoevsky is sentenced to a mock execution.

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