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A review by brucefarrar
The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar Nafisi
4.0
Blending memories of her life and friends in the United States with the literary works of Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, and Carson McCullers, Nafisi looks at her adopted homeland through the lens of three books: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Part memoir and part literary criticism, professor Nafisi passionately defends the importance of fiction as a vital civilizing ingredient in human life. “The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”
Part memoir and part literary criticism, professor Nafisi passionately defends the importance of fiction as a vital civilizing ingredient in human life. “The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”