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

Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Context: Every great work of art... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

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Iranaian academic and writer 1955

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