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6/23/2003 | |
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| Hosted by: Dick Gordon |
Show Originally Aired:
6/16/2003
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Azar
Nafisi
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chapter of "Pnin" by Vladimir
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The writer Vladimir Nabokov
once said: "I think it is all a matter of love: the more
you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
Memory plays perhaps its greatest role in exile
literature when its remembrance that keeps an
individual's story alive.
The Iranian writer
Azar Nafisi knows exile. She was a professor in Tehran
during that country's cultural revolution. She was
ultimately expelled from Tehran university for refusing
to wear the veil. Now, she teaches in the U.S. and last
month, joined us to discuss her memoir, Reading Lolita
in Tehran: a book that praises the power of fiction
while contending with the loss of one's homeland. So,
who better to lead our two part series, Exile and
Literature?
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Azar Nafisi, Director of the
Dialogue Project and Visiting Professor of Culture
and Politics at John's Hopkins School for Advanced
International Studies (SAIS), author of
"Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir
Nabokov's Novels" and "Reading Lolita in
Tehran."
Dmitri Nabokov, son of vladimir
nabokov, and translator of many of his father's
works. Dmitri is currently preparing a book of his
father's poetry and writing his own
autobiography.
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