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About Azar Nafisi
See more books from this AuthorA spirited tribute both to the classics of world literature and to resistance against oppression.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M... | See more reviews from KirkusThis is a highly personal memoir combined with literary criticism, but even that description needs qualifying. The students whose developing stories are part of its pleasure have been disguised for their own protection.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M... | See more reviews from GuardianThe charismatic passion in the book is not simply for literature itself but for the kind of inspirational teaching of it which helps students to teach themselves by applying their own intelligence and emotions to what they are reading.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M... | See more reviews from GuardianNafisi has produced an original work on the relationship between life and literature.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M... | See more reviews from Publishers WeeklyThis book left me deeply sad for days. I felt the heavy blessing of my own freedom. I cannot more highly recommend this book. It is a new perspective.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M... | See more reviews from Blog CriticsAlthough long quotes from lectures and familiar books bog down her narrative, Nafisi relates her girls' moving stories with quiet sympathy.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...Reading Lolita stands to, say, Milosz's The Captive Mind rather as Bridget Jones stands to Elizabeth Bennet.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...Indeed, at its best, it offers an occasion for hungry readers — be they Iranian or American — to experience the transformative power of words for themselves.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...Reading Lolita in Tehran is both an account of the devastating rise of Islamicism in Iran since the Islamic Republic was established and a textual engagement with the literary works that helped her cope with it.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...To read Azar Nafisi's elegantly crafted Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is to enter two worlds simultaneously.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...It is reading as rebellion, literature as liberation and rejoinder.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...One doesn’t need to have read any of the literature discussed in the book or even have a prior understanding of the history of the Islamic Republic in order to appreciate the women’s dilemmas and the solace they find in books.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...Nafisi's memoir showed me a new side of literature.
Read Full Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A M...It is an unforgettable account of an English professor during the Islamic Revolution and the power of literature to influence a woman's life.
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