I read the first chapter of this book while still in Madrid, and was determined to read the rest of it after having read Lolita. I think in retrospect it was even more interesting reading Lolita with the premise of this book resonating in my mind. Set in Iran during the Cultural Revolution and theContinue reading “Book Ramblings: Reading Lolita in Tehran”
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Book Ramblings: Lolita
I moved on to Nabokov’s Lolita after having read and enjoyed his somewhat obscure yet ultimately pleasing Pale Fire. The latter novel’s ability to be tied up, plot-wise, into a neat package of intrigue and endless interpretation seems to counter what, for me, drives the superb-ness of Lolita: not the story that plunges the readerContinue reading “Book Ramblings: Lolita”
11/11/13
Consistency of substance, as paint, textiles, or wine. The nave of a church. We are all looking for certain bodies for the undoing. In the woods the tame becomes treacherous at nightfall; we look up in ways we never do in cities. What is searched for in the sky? Day by day our daily livesContinue reading “11/11/13”
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