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larism27 's review for:
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
I hated reading literature in high school, but this book makes me want to try again, even with Madame Bovary. Nafisi is eloquent and insightful and so many times I wanted to highlight passages, something I never do.
On top of all of that, it felt very timely for me to be reading about a nation in a time of great change and losing democracy and rights to dictatorship. It was terrifying but also empowering to see the characters (both men and women) find ways to be true to themselves.
Lastly to the critics who say this book rambled and was hard to follow, well yes it did but I think that was kinda of the point. It read like a diary but the pages had been shuffled in time. Nifisi weaves between chapters like a dream or nightmare or perhaps waking from one. Or maybe she just wants to lighten the mood after a somber realization. At any rate, I appreciated the grouping of sections by authors (James, Austen, etc) which felt like she was teaching us in her class.
On top of all of that, it felt very timely for me to be reading about a nation in a time of great change and losing democracy and rights to dictatorship. It was terrifying but also empowering to see the characters (both men and women) find ways to be true to themselves.
Lastly to the critics who say this book rambled and was hard to follow, well yes it did but I think that was kinda of the point. It read like a diary but the pages had been shuffled in time. Nifisi weaves between chapters like a dream or nightmare or perhaps waking from one. Or maybe she just wants to lighten the mood after a somber realization. At any rate, I appreciated the grouping of sections by authors (James, Austen, etc) which felt like she was teaching us in her class.