About the book: year / American Celine enters Harvard. Her life is changing dramatically - and everything around her demands that she grow up. Celine timidly feels her way into the unfamiliar. New disciplines await her, arrogant teachers, frighteningly smart students - and countless meanings that she sincerely does not understand, like the simple-minded hero of Dostoevsky. The main test for Celine is love - an absurd love for the mysterious Hungarian Ivan... Elif Batuman is a Slavist, a specialist in Russian literature. The novel “The Idiot” is based on real events: it describes the unique youthful experience of the writer. Critically acclaimed, the novel was named a Best Book of the Month by the New York Times Book Review. In 2018, The Idiot was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize..