I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we con... - Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

"I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language not to revel ourselves but to hide. I was as sure then as I am now that by looking at contemporary Iranian fiction I could gain access to a real understanding of political and social events. (p289)"