![]() ![]() In “Part 1: Lolita,” Nafisi takes Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita as her central text. Each of the four parts is named after a prominent author or work of English literature, which has a central place in illuminating the events and themes discussed in each section. Reading Lolita in Tehran is divided into four parts, with a short epilogue. This guide uses the paperback Penguin Modern Classics edition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, published in 2015.Ĭontent Warning: The source text contains allusions and/or depictions of political and domestic violence, including allusions to child sexual abuse, and death by suicide. Throughout the memoir, Nafisi uses literature as a lens through which she interprets and analyzes the political, cultural, and social issues that dominated life in the Islamic Republic during the 1980s and 1990s. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, American British author Henry James, and English author Jane Austen. ![]() During the weekly sessions with a handpicked group of female former students, Nafisi and her “girls” read and discuss classic works of English literature, with particular importance placed on the works of Russian American author Vladimir Nabokov, American author F. At the center of the memoir is Nafisi’s account of a secret book club she hosted during her last two years in Iran. ![]()
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