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Azar Nafisi, née le 1er décembre 1955 à Téhéran ,, est une romancière écrivaine et professeur iranienne. Elle s'est engagée dans le combat des femmes dans la République islamique d'Iran. Exilée aux Etats Unis, elle a obtenu la citoyenneté américaine en 2008. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. décembre 1955   •   Autres noms آذر نفیسی
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“Un roman, n'est pas une allégorie, ai-je conclu. C'est l'expérience, à travers nos propres sens, d'un autre monde. Si vous n'entrez pas dans ce monde, si vous ne retenez pas votre souffle en même temps que les personnages qui le peuplent, si vous ne vous impliquez pas dans ce qui va leur arriver, vous ne connaîtrez pas l'empathie, et l'empathie est au cœur du roman. Voilà comment il faut lire la fiction, en inhalant l’expérience qu'elle vous propose. Alors commencez à inspirer.”

Azar Nafisi livre Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

“Est-ce que nous considérons que tout est acceptable, que nous n'avons aucune responsabilité envers les autres, que seule compte la satisfaction de nos besoin?”

Azar Nafisi livre Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

“Mais la magie vient du pouvoir du bien, de cette force qui nous dit que nous n’avons pas besoin de nous soumettre aux limites et restrictions que nous impose M. destin, comme l'appelle Nabokov.”

Azar Nafisi livre Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

“La curiosité, disait-elle, est la forme la plus pure de l'insoumission.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi: Citations en anglais

“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

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“The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Contexte: I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes.

“If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Contexte: A novel is not an allegory... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.

“Every great work of art … is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.”

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Contexte: Every great work of art... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

“Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

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“Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.”

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Contexte: As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

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“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”

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Source: Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

“None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.”

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“Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels — the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”

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“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”

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“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”

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“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

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“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies.”

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“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 cormulas about good and evil.”

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“Art is as useful as bread.”

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“[A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.”

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“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

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“There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?”

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“I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.”

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“What we in Iran had in common with Fitzgerald was this dream that became our obsession and took over our reality, this terrible, beautiful dream, impossible in its actualization, for which any amount of violence might be justified or forgiven.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.”

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"Mutually Assured Misunderstanding" at PBS.org, Interviews for Frontline (April 23 and May 2, 2002) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline//shows/tehran/axis/nafisi.html

“This, I believe, is how the villain in modern fiction is born: a creature without compassion, without empathy.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.”

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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“Yes, the novel is about concrete living relationships, a man's love for a woman, a woman's betrayal of that love. But it is also about wealth, its great attraction as well as its destructive power, the carelessness that comes with it, and, yes, it is about the American dream, a dream of power and wealth, the beguiling light of Daisy's house and the port of entry to America. It is also about loss, about the perishability of dreams once they are transformed into hard reality. It is the longing, its immateriality, that makes the dream pure.”

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“It is because these characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole. Their reward is not happiness — a word that is central in Austen's novels but is seldom used in James's universe. What James's characters gain is self-respect.”

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On Henry James and his novels
Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)

“On the one hand, the ruling Islamic regime has succeeded in completely repressing Iranian women. Women are forbidden to go out in public unless they are covered by clothing that conceals everything but their hands and faces. At all government institutions, universities, and airports, there are separate entrances for women, where they are searched for lipstick and other weapons of mass destruction. … Yet, while these measures are meant to render women invisible and powerless, they are paradoxically making women tremendously visible and powerful.”

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The New Republic (22 February 1999)

“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic — not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.”

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