Cervantes, Balzac and double–entry book–keeping

A lecture with Elif Batuman, Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Batuman’s The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them will be published in April 2011.

This event took place on 21 February 2011.

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