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Elif Batuman and Sandi Tan | Coffee Talks - Film Independent - YouTube

#person:elifbatuman | Bringing someone else's embarrassing youth to life-- respecting it more than they could respect it themselves--

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Why Criticism Matters - Essay by Elif Batuman - The New York Times

#writing #person:elifbatuman | "I love this passage, because it finds such a simultaneously meaningful and absurd justification for Proust’s worship of the aristocracy: that leisure class was, for better or worse, Proust’s only available “source of concrete images” of the classless Utopia. So Proust wasn’t just a snob! — or, more accurately, that’s what snobbism was all along: an expression, like gossip, of the striving for a genuinely human existence."

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