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<DIV><B>The foundational text for the acclaimed <I>New York Times</I> and international best seller <I>Reading Lolita in Tehran</I></B><BR /><BR /> The ruler of a totalitarian state seeks validation from a former schoolmate, now the nation’s foremost thinker, in order to access a cultural cache alien to his regime. A literary critic provides commentary on an unfinished poem that both foretells the poet’s death and announces the critic’s secret identity as the king of a lost country. The greatest of Vladimir Nabokov’s enchanters—Humbert—is lost within the antithesis of a fairy story, in which Lolita does not hold the key to his past but rather imprisons him within the knowledge of his distance from that past.<BR /><BR /> In this precursor to her international best seller <I>Reading Lolita in Tehran</I>, Azar Nafisi deftly explores the worlds apparently lost to Nabokov’s characters, their portals of access to those worlds, and how other worlds hold a mirror to Nabokov’s experiences of physical, linguistic, and recollective exile. Written before Nafisi left the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now published in English for the first time and with a new introduction by the author, this boo

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Author

Azar Nafisi, Lotfali Khonji, Valerie Miles, Azar Nafisi

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300159752

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24