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"The title of Elif Batuman's highly charming new book, she writes, is \"borrowed from Dostoyevsky's weirdest novel, The Demons, formerly translated as The Possessed, which narrates the descent into madness of a circle of intellectuals in a remote Russian province: a situation analogous, in certain ways, to my own experiences in grad school.\" Batuman, who is of Turkish ancestry and grew up in New Jersey, now lives in San Francisco and teaches at Stanford, the documented home base for her Dostoyevskian descent."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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