The Idiot Cover
Podcast Mentions

The Idiot

Elif Batuman

A The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding wi...

Podcasts 1
Quotes 1
Get on Amazon Listen on Audible
Fresh Air

Podcast

Fresh Air

The main character in *Mania* switched out Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment* for this later novel by him in her literature class to act as an incendiary object.

"

she switches out Dostoevsky's crime and punishment for a later novel of his you know the one called The Idiot

— Episode: Best Of: Andrew Scott / Women Behind The...

Episode: Best Of: Andrew Scott / Women Behind The Wheel

The main character in *Mania* switched out Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment* for this later novel by him in her literature class to act as an incendiary object.

"

she switches out Dostoevsky's crime and punishment for a later novel of his you know the one called The Idiot

Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.