The Republic of Imagination

The author of the most-selling memoirs 'Tea Lang' Lolita brings a powerful and passionate case to the important role of today's novel.

Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi talked to the reader in a moral unit and execution context with her best-selling book Reading Lolita, which sells her one million pieces. How did she teach her 'enthusiastic Gatsby' and other classics to her enthusiastic students in Iran? . In this exciting follow-up, Nafis wrote a book that her fans were waiting: a passionate, fascinating and completely original homage to the vitality of the novel in a democratic society.

She got clues from the challenges thrown in reading and positively answers those who say today's novel will not tell us. Together with careful reading of memoirs and debates in favorite novels, she encourages us to participate as citizens of her "imaginative republic". And dreaming and pleased

"In the imagination republic, the mirror of the first book, Narusi explores the influence of novels on American life, although literature is not forbidden, it is on the verge of extinction ... she is a literary work Honoring the power of her carefully After she carefully examined her as an important expression of the American spirit, in particular as an insecurity of ours, "endless question", and a sense of permanent externality, three novels I read the impressive details. Nafissi urged us to read widely and interestingly from the deep awe of the Republic.

Among the bestselling books of 2003 "Tehran 's reading of Lolita", Iranian immigrants Azar Nafici revealed why novels are very important in the totalitarian regime. Through "imaginative republic" she tries to prove the importance of great literature in a democratic society that is not threatened by "intellectual laziness", not by fundamentalist revolutionaries. Nafishi was shocked by the circumstances surrounding the humanities science and textualization that I saw in the United States today. And that life and circumstances feel sympathy with people who are quite different from us. "

In Plato's "Republic", Socrates imagines a society meaning ethics that means a very different relationship with the truth most of us familiar. The imaginary society of Socrates is managed according to a sublime lie that rulers existed for a long time. That person decides "It looks like a god," contradicting the truth experience. Obviously, Plato understands SoC well.