Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine which sentence can be inferred from the statement. Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or have details that are not mentioned in the statement. Indicate your answer as 1,2, or 3 corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence.
Input: Statement: In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical. Choices:  1. Tatyana Tolstaya admonishes David Remnick for his style of writing. 2. David Remnick is praised for combining the lyrical with the grotesque. 3. David Remnick writes only satirical books. 

2