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aniela07 · 01 Aug 2012, 16:50

O carte de memorii mai atipicã. Azar, pasionatã de literaturã și profesoarã universitarã dedicatã, povestește relaţia deosebitã pe care a avut-o cu studentele sale preferate, tinere care s-au nãscut prea târziu pânã și pentru nostalgiile pre-revoluţionare, pe fundalul tumultuos al multelor schimbãri petrecute în Iran din anii ’70 încoace, cu metodele de a supravieţui unui sistem care îţi refuzã plãcerile elementare ale vieţii în numele unei doctrine (aici religioase) aride, prost înţelese și dãunãtoare tuturor prin artificialitatea și anti-umanitatea ei.

Stilul lui Nafisi este nepretenţios, iar, deși unele paralelisme literare sunt cam exagerate, cam aduse din condei, memoriile curg natural, elegant. Chiar și aspectele vieţii lor cu un marcat potenţial șocant sunt astfel povestite fãrã insistenţe inutile și dezvoltãri abominabile (lucru pe care îl detest la toate cãrţile noi care urmãresc vânzarea prin însãși oribilitatea ostentativã a celor povestite –femei lapidate sau atacate cu acid etc.) încât refuzul și condamnarea unui regim aberant sunt comunicate într-un mod paradoxal cu atât mai convingãtor cu cât delicateţea vieţii private și a tragediilor personale este respectatã.

"These students, like the rest of their generation, were different from mine in one fundamental aspect. My generation complained of a loss, the void in our lives that was created when our past was stolen from us, making us exiles in our own country. Yet we had a past to compare with the present; we had memories and images of what had been taken away. But my girls spoke constantly of stolen kisses, films they had never seen and the wind they had never felt on their skin."

"You don't read Gatsby," I said, "to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil..."

"There was nothing in reality that I could give her, so I told her instead about Nabokov's "other world". I asked her if she had noticed how in most of Nabokov's novels -Invitation to a Beheading, Bend Sinister, Ada, Pnin -there was always the shadow of another world, one that was only attainable through fiction. It is this world that prevents his heroes and heroines from utter despair, that becomes their refuge in a life that is consistently brutal."

"Looking back, I am amazed at how much we learned without even noticing it. We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fiction."

01 Aug 2012, 16:50	#1210
aniela07 Guru Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 656	Azar Nafisi -Citind Lolita in Teheran O carte de memorii mai atipicã. Azar, pasionatã de literaturã și profesoarã universitarã dedicatã, povestește relaţia deosebitã pe care a avut-o cu studentele sale preferate, tinere care s-au nãscut prea târziu pânã și pentru nostalgiile pre-revoluţionare, pe fundalul tumultuos al multelor schimbãri petrecute în Iran din anii ’70 încoace, cu metodele de a supravieţui unui sistem care îţi refuzã plãcerile elementare ale vieţii în numele unei doctrine (aici religioase) aride, prost înţelese și dãunãtoare tuturor prin artificialitatea și anti-umanitatea ei. Stilul lui Nafisi este nepretenţios, iar, deși unele paralelisme literare sunt cam exagerate, cam aduse din condei, memoriile curg natural, elegant. Chiar și aspectele vieţii lor cu un marcat potenţial șocant sunt astfel povestite fãrã insistenţe inutile și dezvoltãri abominabile (lucru pe care îl detest la toate cãrţile noi care urmãresc vânzarea prin însãși oribilitatea ostentativã a celor povestite –femei lapidate sau atacate cu acid etc.) încât refuzul și condamnarea unui regim aberant sunt comunicate într-un mod paradoxal cu atât mai convingãtor cu cât delicateţea vieţii private și a tragediilor personale este respectatã. "These students, like the rest of their generation, were different from mine in one fundamental aspect. My generation complained of a loss, the void in our lives that was created when our past was stolen from us, making us exiles in our own country. Yet we had a past to compare with the present; we had memories and images of what had been taken away. But my girls spoke constantly of stolen kisses, films they had never seen and the wind they had never felt on their skin." "You don't read Gatsby," I said, "to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil..." "There was nothing in reality that I could give her, so I told her instead about Nabokov's "other world". I asked her if she had noticed how in most of Nabokov's novels -Invitation to a Beheading, Bend Sinister, Ada, Pnin -there was always the shadow of another world, one that was only attainable through fiction. It is this world that prevents his heroes and heroines from utter despair, that becomes their refuge in a life that is consistently brutal." "Looking back, I am amazed at how much we learned without even noticing it. We were, to borrow from Nabokov, to experience how the ordinary pebble of ordinary life could be transformed into a jewel through the magic eye of fiction."