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Indlæser... Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (original 2003; udgave 2003)af Azar Nafisi
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Voglio iniziare questa recensione ringraziando Azar Nafisi, perché una dichiarazione d’amore così bella nei confronti della letteratura mi ha sciolto il cuore e mi ha ricordato con forza perché leggere è un’esperienza tanto appagante. Avevo paura che Leggere Lolita a Teheran mi avrebbe annoiato perché non avevo letto gran parte dei libri citati; e invece, da brava insegnante, Nafisi mi ha fatto solo venire voglia di leggere ancora di più. Ammetto però che non vi troverete nessuna novità in tema di interpretazione delle opere, quindi se siete del mestiere è possibile che in alcuni punti vi annoierete. I momenti che ho preferito sono quelli nei quali si vede il potere della letteratura, la sua capacità di abbattere le barriere, di farci andare laddove da solə avremmo troppa paura ad addentrarci. La letteratura, lasciata libera di esprimersi, non conosce pudori, diktat o manicheismo: quanto di piace – e quanto riesce a metterci a disagio – la sua capacità di farci vedere la complessità del mondo senza bisogno di spiegarla, semplicemente mostrandocela. Altrimenti perché spaventerebbe così tanto i regimi di tutto il mondo e di tutte le epoche? Ci ricordiamo sempre del potere della letteratura quando ci viene portata via: fino ad allora pare che la lettura sia solo un passatempo da perdigiorno, da gente annoiata che nella vita non fatica abbastanza. E invece la lettura è una di quelle attività che rendono la vita bella, ricca e piacevole: se non ha la considerazione che merita, qualcosa non va. Ne sappiamo qualcosa anche noi... I was so interested in the subject, I wanted to know about the student's lives in Tehran and the experience of freedom this class gave them. I only got through 10%. While what I listed above that is definitely a part of the book, the majority of it seems to be about the author, her experience, and how it affected her. In the first 10% I read, there is an almost exhausting amount of 'I's and 'me's. As some other reviews have said, it does come off as self-important.
The 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. [A]n eloquent brief on the transformative powers of fiction--on the refuge from ideology that art can offer to those living under tyranny, and art's affirmative and subversive faith in the voice of the individual. A spirited tribute both to the classics of world literature and to resistance against oppression. Indeholder elevguideHas as a teacher's guideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
Den iranske kvindelige professor i litteratur Azar Nafisis erindringer fra den islamiske brydningstid under den iranske revolution, hvor hun blev afskediget som underviser på universitetet i Teheran og i al hemmelighed samlede syv af sine kvindelige studerende i en læsekreds. No library descriptions found. |
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Nafisi is a professor of English literature, and the best parts of the book are the scenes of Iranian students in the early days of the revolution, and later in Nafisi's private study group in the late 1990s, reacting to the novels she loves and teaches. The classroom "trial" of The Great Gatsby, in which an ardent Islamic revolutionary student condems the book as a part of the decadent and immoral West, while another student argues in defense of its moral value, was a high point. Nafisi's drawing of a parallel between Humbert's "pinning" of Lolita and forcing her to be the person of his own imagination and what Nafisi sees as a similar act by Khomeini and the Islamic Republic in forcing Iranians to conform to their fantasies of how people should behave also struck me as interesting.
But there was less of that than I would have thought, and more of Nafisi's own condemnations and rants against the Islamic regime and its supporters and how it all made her feel. And most of the book's scenes with her small private study group of women equally alienated from the regime is spent complaining about their lives and the government, rather than discussing literature. Though to be sure, they have plenty to complain about, no argument there.
The book is interesting and worth reading, but I do wish Nafisi could have toned down her obviously strong impulse to write about "how the Islamic Republic made me continually feel depressed" and concentrated somewhat more on the actual works of English literature and how her students responded to them in their particular, much different, society.
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