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Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak Memory Ada or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita Lila Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time memory sexual passion nature loss love in all its forms language in all its allusions. She explores his Russian childhood his European sojourns the landscapes of 'his' America hallucinates an interview and seeks the 'crunch of happiness' in Vladimir Nabokov's singular vocabulary. This rhapsodic and beautifully illuminated book which includes such fans as Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk will lure the innocent reader to a well of delights.…mehr

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Plunging into the enchanted and luminous worlds of Speak Memory Ada or Ardor; and the infamous Lolita Lila Azam Zanganeh seeks out the Nabokovian experience of time memory sexual passion nature loss love in all its forms language in all its allusions. She explores his Russian childhood his European sojourns the landscapes of 'his' America hallucinates an interview and seeks the 'crunch of happiness' in Vladimir Nabokov's singular vocabulary. This rhapsodic and beautifully illuminated book which includes such fans as Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk will lure the innocent reader to a well of delights.
Autorenporträt
Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris to Iranian parents. Her family returned to Tehran but were forced to flee from the Islamic revolution when she was still a baby. She grew up in Paris and moved to the United States at the age of 22 to teach literature, cinema and Romance languages at Harvard University. In 2006, she edited a book of essays about cultural life in contemporary Iran: My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes, which was translated in several languages and won two prizes.