An excerpt from "Reading Lolita in Tehran"

[pbpickles]

"A novel is not an allegory. I said this as the period was about to come to an end. It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you

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[nyankoframe]

I love that book!!