by Azar Nafisi · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264041388
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«Lire Lolita à Téhéran» is the memoir by Azar Nafisi, published by 10/18 in paperback (467 pages, in French).
After being removed from her professorship at the University of Tehran, Azar Nafisi organized clandestine meetings with seven of her female students to read major Western works. Through Lolita and The Great Gatsby, the young women examine their lives under the Islamic Republic and discover in literature a space of freedom against repression.
Original title: «Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books»; translation by Marie-Hélène Dumas. Domaine étranger collection. 2004 awards: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and Book Sense Book of the Year.
Of interest to readers of memoirs and nonfiction about Iran, the role of reading and women's experience under authoritarian regimes.
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
