Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi
A professor secretly teaches forbidden Western novels to seven women in revolutionary Iran. A memoir about books as freedom and the private life of the mind.
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Three things you will actually use
- Imagination is resistance.
- Read dangerously.
- The private mind stays free.
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Read the opening section on the first class.
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Books as freedom.
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