Quell Altro Mondo Nabokov E L Enigma Dell Esilio
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Quell Altro Mondo
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : it
Publisher: Adelphi Edizioni spa
Release Date : 2022-07-12T00:00:00+02:00
Quell Altro Mondo written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Adelphi Edizioni spa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12T00:00:00+02:00 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nel ricordo di Azar Nafisi, rientrata in patria proprio nel 1979, l’anno della rivoluzione di Khomeini, la parola che più di frequente ricorreva nelle riflessioni sul nuovo destino che incombeva su di lei era «confisca»: la Repubblica islamica aveva infatti confiscato la storia dell’Iran, la sua cultura e la sua tradizione, e insieme l’identità di ogni individuo. Esiliata in patria, prigioniera di un regime totalitario ostile a tutto ciò che lasciasse spazio all’unicità, lacerata da un sentimento di irrealtà, abbandono e isolamento, Azar Nafisi non poteva che tornare all’amato Nabokov, e condividere con i suoi studenti l’esperienza di un rapporto improntato a un’esaltante reciprocità, giacché via via che si immerge nell’universo di uno scrittore il lettore non fa che arricchirlo di una percezione nuova, di una nuova dimensione. È nato così un libro tanto affascinante e singolare da ricordare alcuni ritratti dotati di coperchio del Rinascimento: il ritratto di Nabokov – frutto di un’analisi delle sue opere che sembra rispondere all’auspicio formulato in «Lezioni di letteratura»: «Leggendo, dovremmo prestare attenzione ai particolari, coccolarli» – cela infatti quello della realtà dell’Iran di allora, ma «andando oltre l’Iran, portando alla luce la mentalità totalitaristica in generale e i suoi bersagli».
Quell Altro Mondo Nabokov E L Enigma Dell Esilio
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Quell Altro Mondo Nabokov E L Enigma Dell Esilio written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Republic Of Imagination
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-10-21
The Republic Of Imagination written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.
Reading Lolita In Tehran
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2003-12-30
Reading Lolita In Tehran written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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. Praise for Reading Lolita in Tehran “Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don’ t know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic.”—Geraldine Brooks, author of Nine Parts of Desire
Things I Ve Been Silent About
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Things I Ve Been Silent About written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Absorbing . . . a testament to the ways in which narrative truth-telling—from the greatest works of literature to the most intimate family stories—sustains and strengthens us.”—O: The Oprah Magazine In this stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, Azar Nafisi shares her memories of living in thrall to a powerful and complex mother against the backdrop of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets, a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature, the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by upheaval—these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday). BONUS: This edition contains a Things I've Been Silent About discussion guide. Praise for Things I've Been Silent About “Deeply felt . . . an affecting account of a family’s struggle.”—New York Times “A gifted storyteller with a mastery of Western literature, Nafisi knows how to use language both to settle scores and to seduce.”—New York Times Book Review “An immensely rewarding and beautifully written act of courage, by turns amusing, tender and obsessively dogged.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A lyrical, often wrenching memoir.”—People
The Epic Of Kings Hero Tales Of Ancient Persia
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Author : Firdausi
language : en
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The Epic Of Kings Hero Tales Of Ancient Persia written by Firdausi and has been published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with History categories.
The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia Firdausi - The Epic of Kings, Hero Tales of Ancient Persia (The Shahnameh) is an epic poem by the Persian poet Firdausi, written between 966 and 1010 AD. Telling the past of the Persian empire, using a mix of the mythical and historical, it is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Not only important to the Persian culture, it is also important to modern day followers of the Zoroastrianism religion. It is said that the poem was Firdausi's efforts to preserve the memory of Persia's golden days, following the fall of the Sassanid empire. The poem contains, among others, mentions of the romance of Zal and Rudba, Alexander the Great, the wars with Afrsyb, and the romance of Bijan and Manijeh.
That Other World
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Author : Azar Nafisi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-25
That Other World written by Azar Nafisi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The foundational text for the acclaimed international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran “Empathetic, incisive. . . . A sweeping overview of Nabokov's major works. . . . Graceful [and] discerning.”—Kirkus Reviews The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past. In this precursor to her international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this book evokes the reader’s quintessential journey of discovery and reveals what caused Nabokov to distinctively shape and reshape that journey for the author.
Shirin Neshat
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Author : Ed Schad
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Shirin Neshat written by Ed Schad and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Art categories.
Tracing the Iranian-born artist's personal journey in exile from her native Iran, this book presents Shirin Neshat's iconic early videos and photographs along with new work making its global debut. In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen video meditations on the culture of the chador in Islamic Iran "the first undoubtable masterpieces of video installation." Over the next twenty-five years Neshat's work has continued its passionate engagement with ancient and recent Iranian history, extending its reach to the universal experience of living in exile and the human impact of political revolution. This book connects Neshat's early video and photographic works--including haunting films such as Rapture, 1999 and Tooba, 2002--to her current projects which focus on the relation of home to exile and dreams such as The Home of My Eyes, 2015, and a new, never-before-seen project, Land of Dreams, 2019. It includes numerous stills from her series, Dreamers, in which she documents the lives of outsiders and exiles in the United States. This volume also includes essays by prominent Iranian cultural figures as well as an interview with the artist. Neshat has always been a voice for those whose individual freedoms are under attack. With this monograph, her audience will gain a deeper understanding of Neshat's own emotional, psychological, and political identities, and how they have helped her create compassionate portraits of the fraught and delicate spaces between attachment and alienation. Published with The Broad
The Last Libertines
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Author : Benedetta Craveri
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2020-10-20
The Last Libertines written by Benedetta Craveri and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with History categories.
An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during—and was eventually destroyed by—the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of “seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy’s final moment of grace—a moment when it seemed to the nation’s elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge the widespread demand for change, and in doing so reconcile itself with Enlightenment ideals of justice, tolerance, and citizenship.” Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for “the romantic character of their exploits and amours—but also by the keenness with which they experienced this crisis in the civilization of the ancien régime, of which they themselves were the emblem.” Displaying the aristocratic virtues of “dignity, courage, refinement of manners, culture, [and] wit,” the Duc de Lauzun, the Vicomte de Ségur, the Duc de Brissac, the Comte de Narbonne, the Chevalier de Boufflers, the Comte de Ségur, and the Comte de Vaudreuil were at the same time “irreducible individualists” and true “sons of the Enlightenment,” all of them ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they found themselves condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings the past to life, powerfully dramatizing a turbulent time that was at once the last act of a now-vanished world and the first act of our own.
Geometry Of The Passions
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Author : Remo Bodei
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Geometry Of The Passions written by Remo Bodei and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with History categories.
The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision. By means of a theoretical and historical analysis, Bodei interprets the relationship between passion and reason as a conflict between two complementary logics. Geometry of the Passions investigates the paradoxical conflict-collaboration between passions and reason, and between individual and political projects. Tracing the roles passion and reason have played throughout history, including in the political agendas of Descartes, Hobbes, and the French Jacobins, Geometry of the Passions reveals how passion and reason may be used as a vehicle for affirmation rather than self-enslavement.