reading lolita in tehran azar nafisi. announcer: if. for such a small word, it packs a wallop. if i live to 100. if social security isn t enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with coverage that builds on what you already have. together, we can create a personal safety net - a launching pad for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. call on our expertise and get dr. azar nafisi welcome. thank you very much. your book is entitled reading lolita in tehran, a memoir and books. why did you select that title? about as your theme an older man s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl? well first of all i wanted it to be about celebration of great books of imagination. it says readers are born free and ought to remain free. i wanted to bring to people s attention the right of millions of readers in my country and other places who do not enjoy the same rights and that obsession of the olde
nurturer it? we ll ask the iranian author of reading lolita in tehran azar nafisi. dr. azar nafisi welcome. thank you very much. your book is entitled reading lolita in tehran, a memoir and books. why did you select that title? about as your theme an older man s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl? well first of all i wanted it to be about celebration of great books of imagination. it says readers are born free and ought to remain free. i wanted to bring to people s attention the right of millions of readers in my country and other places who do not enjoy the same rights and that obsession of the older man is about an old man imposing his dream of a past a girl he could never have when he was a child upon the living realty of a young girl called lolita. that is what they did to us in iran. they imposed their dream upon our lives. they wanted me and the other women in iran to become like the pictures on the cover of this book. you also speak about the confiscated
reading lolita in tehran azar nafisi. announcer: if. for such a small word, it packs a wallop. if i live to 100. if social security isn t enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with coverage that builds on what you already have. together, we can create a personal safety net - a launching pad for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. call on our expertise and get dr. azar nafisi welcome. thank you very much. your book is entitled reading lolita in tehran, a memoir and books. why did you select that title? about as your theme an older man s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl? well first of all i wanted it to be about celebration of great books of imagination. it says readers are born free and ought to remain free. i wanted to bring to people s attention the right of millions of readers in my country and other places who do not enjoy the same rights and that obsession of the olde
hungry for freedom. around the planet there are still millions of people urge to be free urine thing to be free north korea, cuba and burma. in iran where an oppressive thee i don t think crass cy rules thee i don t think crass cy student protests have been met with brutal repression. all revolution fire reese know the revolution fire reese know the spirit cannot be crushed unless the spirit is crushed. the hunger for freedom keeps the spirit alive no matter how extreme the counter forces. how can that hunger be fed? can the great works of western literature and a reading circle nurturer it? we ll ask the iranian author of reading lolita in tehran azar nafisi. dr. azar nafisi welcome. thank you very much. your book is entitled reading lolita in tehran, a memoir and books. why did you select that title? about as your theme an older man s sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl? well first of all i wanted it to be about celebration of great books of imagination.