Reading Lolita in Tehran

阿扎尔•纳菲西（Azar Nafisi）伊朗裔美国女作家、学者、评论家。1955年生于伊朗，13岁赴海外留学，26岁时获得美国俄克拉荷马州立大学文学博士学位。后归国任教于德黑兰大学等三所高校，但因在女性的穿着与行为等问题上与校方产生严重分歧而被辞退。1997年纳菲西返回美国，以访问学者的身份就职于约翰•霍普金斯大学。除此书以外，纳菲西还在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》等主流媒体上发表文化批评专栏，如今已成为美国炙手可热的评论家。

出版者:Random House Inc

作者:Nafisi, Azar

页数:368

出版时间:2003-3

价格:CDN$ 35.95

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9780375504907

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We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.

For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; several had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about the novels they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Their stories intertwined with those they were reading—Pride and Prejudice, Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita—their Lolita, as they imagined her in Tehran.

Nafisi’s account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations. In those frenetic days, the students took control of the university, expelled faculty members and purged the curriculum. When a radical Islamist in Nafisi’s class questioned her decision to teach The Great Gatsby, which he saw as an immoral work that preached falsehoods of “the Great Satan,” she decided to let him put Gatsby on trial and stood as the sole witness for the defense.

Azar Nafisi’s luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women’s lives in revolutionary Iran. It is a work of great passion and poetic beauty, written with a startlingly original voice.

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