Books
by Azar Nafisi
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Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Having done just that, I was naturally drawn to this book, although I read Lolita long before the overthrow of the Shah. In the late 90s Azar Nafasi, invited seven young women into her house to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. Intertwined with her fascinating comments on the books themselves, she relates their personal stories as well as her own from when she started teaching at Tehran University in the early days of revolution.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 25 August 2004) |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran - A Memoir in Books |
The author, who had studied in America and taught afterwards at Tehran University, describes how she set up a seminar for a select group of students after the Iranian revolution. Although much of this book is devoted to their discussions about the works of Jane Austen, Scott Fitzgerald, Nabokov and others, the tyrannical system imposed by Khomeini and its consequences for the students have an important role in this story. A remarkable book.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 47 September 2008) |
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