Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Nafisi, Azar
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About This Item
Fourth Estate,. Paperback. 347pp. Azar Nafisi was expelled from the University of Tehran for wearing the veil and left for America in 1997 where she has since been a professor of English litertature. This memoir of teaching in Iran uses four discussions at a book club at the writers house as a structure to form the narrative. The book is divided into sections Lolita, Gatsby, James, Austen but dozens of books are refered to throughout. Lightly creased to spine. Pages lightly tanned. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2003.
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On Feb 15 2015, The Old Library Bookshop said:
If you’ve ever questioned the value of literature--particularly of fiction--to transform and inspire, you’ve only to read this memoir by a talented Iranian woman, a professor of Western literature. Nafisi’s university classrooms during the chaotic years of the Iranian revolution were filled with young people defined by their various “-isms.” They seemed to be more like political battlegrounds than places of learning and discovery. Finally, in 1995, Dr. Nafisi came to the realization that she no longer could function within the strictures imposed by the Islamic Republic, not only the punitive dress requirements for women but also the demands to screen all literature through the prism of Islamic fundamentalism and its moral code. Leaving the halls of academia, she chose from among her students seven women who shared her fondness for Western literature to meet in her home one morning a week to discuss assigned readings. As Nafisi and her “girls” studied their favorite authors--among them Jane Austen, Flaubert, Henry James, and, of course, Nabokov--they also came to better understand the society in which they lived and their own individual hopes and needs. Of particular poignancy was the wrenching decision by the Nafisis and a few of the students to leave their homeland. The many strands of this beautifully written memoir come together flawlessly. The reader comes away with a better understanding of 20th-century Iranian history and several great works of Western literature, along with a detailed portrait of seven unique Iranian women and their remarkable teacher.
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- C L Hawley (GB)
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- Title
- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- Author
- Nafisi, Azar
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- Fourth Estate,
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Azar Nafisi,Women writers,Women,Women's rights,Political memoirs,, Middle East literature,Iranian literature,Iran,Islamic Republic of Iran , ,Iranian Revolution ,Literary criticism,Jane Austen,Vladimir Nabokov,, Henry James,F. Scott Fitzgerald,History
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