Word: gessenã
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...stickier than explaining Harvard places and objects is the quandary of whether to use real names of people. Gessen??s titular sad young men represent what he describes as three guys who are each similar in different ways to the author...
...them is in the first person, and it just seemed natural to go ahead and call him Keith. And in a way, he’s the character who is least actually like me.” The roommate character is an amalgam of Gessen??s actual roommates. As for other central figures in the book, Gessen graduated two years ahead of Kristin Gore, but he insists that Lauren, the vice president’s daughter in the book, is not based on Gore, who he only knew “a tiny...
...attitude that has its roots in the literary criticism of the great 19th-century Russian thinker Vissarion Belinsky—and one that is both the novel’s greatest strength and its ultimate downfall.Ostensibly, “Literary Men” is about three young men, Keith (Gessen??s fictional alter ego), Mark, and Sam—all with some literary or academic pretensions, all extremely reflective and self-obsessed—who drift through various complicated love affairs over the course of a decade or so, beginning at about 1994 and ending in early...
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