Polirom Read dangerously, Azar Nafisi

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Remembering is equivalent to death, azar nafisi tells us, and books have always been our guardian of memory. Books often convey unspoken truths and frequently become a powerful form of resistance against totalitarian regimes. In the five imaginary letters assigned to him, along with autobiographical additions, the author understands literature not only as resistance literature but above all as a form of resistance.

By examining the works of great writers such as salman rushdie, margaret atwood, tim morrison, david grossman, elias khoury, ray bradbury, james baldwin, or tanehisi coates, many major problems that the contemporary world faces are discussed: dehumanization, the struggle for women's and minority rights, the iranian theocracy and anti-democratic shifts in the us, wars in the middle east, and concentration camps, the victim-perpetrator relationship, pandemics, and all these themes transformed into fiction have turned the books into revolutionary, exciting, and "dangerous" readings, and continue to do so, replacing lies with the truths they reveal.

read dangerously is a book that can't leave us silent or indifferent. Books can't save us from death, but they can help us live, and more importantly, live with hope. (azar nafisi) "well, how can we explain why so many people resort to ideas, imagination, and beauty when everything we call life is taken from them?" When they have absolutely no power over their lives and deaths? When they are on the verge of dying? When we encounter such cruelty and oppression, when we lose hope of being human, we instinctively turn to these achievements of humanity, which pay homage to honor, freedom, and beauty.

Even in places so close to death, we appeal to the empathy and belief that life remains close to us, with the birth of love, passion and the desire to communicate, with the things that arise from the need to cope with death and oblivion.

Even when we're on the brink of death, when we can't choose how to live or how to die, it's equally important that we have the opportunity to choose how to face death, how to approach our killer – or the emptiness that death offers.

in a world that gives us rumi or shakespeare, we cannot lose hope.

” (azar nafisi)

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