Azar Nafisi
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| Title | : | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
| Author | : | Azar Nafisi |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 356 pages |
| Published | : | December 30th 2003 by Random House Trade Paperbacks (first published March 25th 2003) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Cultural. Iran. Writing. Books About Books. Feminism. Biography Memoir |
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.
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| Original Title: | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
| ISBN: | 081297106X (ISBN13: 9780812971064) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Azar Nafisi |
| Setting: | Iran, Islamic Republic of Persia |
| Literary Awards: | Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2004), Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Essai (2004) |
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Ratings: 3.61 From 112471 Users | 7396 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
I didn't enjoy this as much as I hoped I would.The writing is very impersonal and detached for a memoir. The dispassionate monotone delivery of the narration made this more abundant. I was actually quite bored for the majority of this audio book, which is 18.5 hours long. There was a large portion where dissections of the books they read at the gatherings were delivered like a university lecture. This made me a little upset since some of the books she delves into detail about I have not actuallyThis was a tough read. I suppose I would have appreciated it more if I had read all the books that were referenced in this one. And if I studied literature, studied the meaning of every scene, every characterization, every image from the books, I might have appreciated it.Unfortunately this was much too deep and a serious study of literature. I enjoyed her accounts of life in Tehran and the characters in her book. I enjoyed her personal accounts and her life stories. Unfortunately true life was
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into 32 languages. The book consists of a memoir of the author's experiences about returning to Iran during the revolution (19781981) and living under the Islamic Republic of Iran government until her departure in 1997. It
To read a book about women who read Lolita in Tehran is to open the window to a world of dismay, in which even an act so pure and simple as enjoying fiction is considered treason, punishable by the wrongly proclaimed authorities in your life. I am constantly on the lookout for books which challenge my view of the world, or who have the power to paint a picture of another way of life, that I have been fortunate enough to never experience. "Reading Lolita in Tehran" is one of those books.By no
I feel like I showed up for class without reading the required assignment. This book should come with a prerequisite reading list: Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Miller, and Pride and Prejudice or at least a warning for spoilers: (view spoiler)[Lolita is raped by an older man, Gatsby dies, Daisy Miller doesn't get a happy ending, and Elizabeth Bennett does (hide spoiler)]. If I would have known Nafisi was going to delve into these literary pieces like she would one of
I wrote this review before I read Jasmine and Stars. I was too generous to Nafisi.This book is very personal and my enjoyment of it is very much rooted in my experience of living with Iranian people in the UK and fascination with the country's history and culture. When I first read the book about ten years ago, I was astonished to read about how the 1979 revolution, which is seen by most Westerners as the triumph of Muslim extremists and had been described to me as the British/American led
More than a combination of literary criticism and memoirs of living through the totalitarian ruthlessness of Islamist-ruled Iran, this book essentially examines how the author and a group of friends took refuge in literature from the totalitarian nightmare.And at the same time using that literature to make sense of life under Islamo-Nazi repression.The women in the group are able to make analogies of the works of Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Austen, Henry James and F Scott Fitzgerald with the society
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