Either/Or shares none of the chastity of its predecessor. Like some critics of The Idiot, he turns out to have wanted a little less talk and a little more action. In reality, Either/Or informs us, Ivan was just the kind of person who preferred sex on a Thai beach to stilted conversation by the Danube. The blunders and miscues that stalled her relationship with Ivan could not be explained away by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that she had sworn by-the idea that “the language you spoke affected how you processed reality.” When the sexual tension built over the summer crescendoed into nothing more than a brotherly hug in a parking lot, Selin was left feeling adrift-and angry about all the linguistics classes she had taken the previous year. She had just spent the summer of 1996 teaching English in a village outside Budapest, a job she took to get closer-physically and culturally-to her crush, a Hungarian math student named Ivan who has now graduated. At the end of The Idiot, she resolved to stop taking classes in the psychology and philosophy of language. View Moreįor Selin, a narrator who treats course descriptions as manifestos, this portends a drastic shift in worldview and sensibility. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read.
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