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and interviews]
Summer 2008
The Art of Fiction No. 197: Interview with Umberto Eco for The
Paris Review
INTERVIEWER
Did the war have any impact on your decision to write?
ECO
No, there is no direct connection. I had started writing before the war, independently of the war. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. I was a perfectionist and wanted to make them look as though they had been printed, so I wrote them in capital letters and made up title pages, summaries, illustrations.
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Spring 2007
The Art of Fiction No. 192: Interview With Jorge
Semprún for The
Paris Review
INTERVIEWER
In your books you discuss the paradoxical nature
of pleasure as something that might have reconnected
you to life after the camp but which in fact
drew you back to the memory of death.
SEMPRÚN
Yes, pleasure was, in reality, the complete
opposite of oblivion. I could see the shadow
of Buchenwald in the gaze of the girls who looked
at me after I’d left the camp. And so to me
pleasure became, to put it bluntly, a reminder
of the life I had stolen from others. The sheer
guilt of being in the world, of having survived
the collective hell of the camp.
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APRIL 19, 2006
Read about the New
York Public Library presentation of Lila
Azam Zanganeh's book, with Shirin Neshat, Lila
Azam Zanganeh, Roya Hakakian, Azar Nafisi, (pictured
top to bottom here), Sussan Deyhim, Soraya Broukhim
and Azadeh Moaveni. This event was co-sponsored
by PEN
American Center.
A CONVERSATION Lila Azam Zanganeh, who aims
"to corrode fixed ideas and turn cultural and
political clichés on their heads" and
is editor of My Sister, Guard Your Veil;
My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian
Voices, engaged in a conversation with Azar
Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran:
A Memoir in Books, on the chrysalid of
identity politics versus the durable pigments
of individual imagination; when politics collide
with poetry.
A DISCUSSION Four Iranian women, Shirin Neshat,
Roya Hakakian, Azadeh Moaveni, and Lila Azam
Zanganeh, moderator, discussed the problematic
notion of Iranian identity: Who are we in these
shifting times and how do we devise ways to
formulate it? The panel offered these women's
perspectives on race, religion, and sexuality
in - and in exile from - the Islamic Republic.
A READING Actress Soraya Broukhim read from
the book.
MUSIC Sussan Deyhim, a Persian vocalist, performed.
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about Lila's anthology and to purchase a copy.
APRIL 9, 2006
Read about the Levantine
Center presentation of "Uncensored Iranian
Voices" in Los Angeles.
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Lila with Reza Aslan on April 9, 2006 |
Uncensored
Iranian Voices
Over the weekend of April 9, The
Levantine Cultural Center hosted several young
Iranian intellectuals at Pacific Arts Center.
Lila Azam Zanganeh, editor of the Uncensored
Iranian Voices anthology, spoke with No
god but God author Reza
Aslan about the path to peace and democracy
in Iran.
Sholeh
Wolpé moderated the discussion.
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