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Censoring an Iranian Love Story
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bookshelves: iran, fiction, bookclub, translation, awaiting-review, fiction-literary, used-to-own
Nov 08, 2014
bookshelves: iran, fiction, bookclub, translation, awaiting-review, fiction-literary, used-to-own
Book club read for February 2015.
(by James Wood)
(by James Wood)
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Reading Progress
November 8, 2014
– Shelved
November 8, 2014
– Shelved as:
iran
November 8, 2014
– Shelved as:
fiction
December 19, 2014
– Shelved as:
bookclub
February 10, 2015
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Started Reading
February 10, 2015
– Shelved as:
translation
February 10, 2015
–
5.42%
"Yes, "The Blind Owl" is a real book. The blurb: « Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness...»"
page
16
February 10, 2015
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27.8%
"If the semiotics of cinematic language can be perceived as a coded information embedded in a movie, and if you're an Iranian that admits to understanding that language and desire to share that hidden message with others, then you are clearly guilty of espionage, since you are reading and spreading secret codes hidden by those Western imperialist devils!
***Brilliant!***"
page
82
***Brilliant!***"
February 10, 2015
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32.88%
"Loved the hilarious depiction of the censoring of Dances With Wolves with a blind censor."
page
97
February 11, 2015
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58.31%
"«Nabokov has, in his brilliant lectures and lessons on literature, said, “Literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf, and there was no wolf behind him.� But this is simple. I would say that the best stories are those in which the lying shepherd boy, or the writer, comes crying wolf, wolf, and a wolf that was not there appears behind him.»"
page
172
February 11, 2015
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63.73%
"Duh. The last thing a young man in sexually repressed Iran would need is Viagra."
page
188
February 11, 2015
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66.78%
"And yet it is a love story, with all the sweet banal naïveté of the genre. Poor innocents, as doomed as Romeo and Juliet."
page
197
February 12, 2015
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69.15%
"Gotta finish this by this evening! «Son! According to the latest scientific research, only twenty percent of the men in the world have brains, the rest have wives.»"
page
204
February 12, 2015
–
69.15%
"Gotta finish this by this evening! «Son! According to the latest scientific research, only twenty percent of the men in the world have brains, the rest have wives.»"
page
204
February 12, 2015
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75.59%
"«No, no � Not again.» «I have been meaning to write a tender love story without any gloom and darkness.» Are we surprised that you can't?"
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223
February 12, 2015
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Finished Reading
April 5, 2015
– Shelved as:
awaiting-review
February 6, 2019
– Shelved as:
fiction-literary
June 23, 2019
– Shelved as:
used-to-own
