《我所缄默的事》【内容简介】

　　在《在德黑兰读<洛丽塔>》中，伊朗作家阿扎尔·纳菲西讲述了一个秘密阅读的故事；在本书中，她讲述一个动荡时代的伊朗家庭的秘密故事，从祖母到女儿。尽管出身显赫，但纳菲西无意于记录往来名人，或者评论政治生活，综述各个历史时刻，而希望描述那些脆弱的历史的十字路口——在那里，人们的生活和个性反映出了一个更大更广阔的故事，并与之产生共鸣。

　　如同一幅素描，本书将一个女人、一个家庭和一片受难国土刻画得令人难以忘怀。那些成长中的人与事，照片、文字、故事、事实交织而成的人生，以及诸种生命片段之间的空白，正是纳菲西所要探寻并希望讲述的——那些缄默的事。对她而言，这种叙述最终带来的并非终结，而是理解、守护，以及自由。

　　缄默有许多不同的形式：独裁政府强制民众保持缄默，偷走他们的记忆，重写他们的历史，将国家认同的身份强加给他们；见证者的缄默是选择忽视或者不说出真相；而受害者的缄默则使他们变成发生在自己身上罪行的共犯。此外，还有我们对自己的沉默，对个人神话的缄默，对加诸现实生活之上的故事的缄默，我们放纵自己沉湎其中。——阿扎尔•纳菲西

　　作者简介

　　阿扎尔•纳菲西（AzarNafisi）

　　约翰•霍普金斯大学客座教授、对外政策研究院的对话研究项目负责人。曾在伊朗的德黑兰大学、自由伊斯兰大学以及阿拉美塔巴塔拜大学教授西方文学。1981年因拒戴头巾，被逐出德黑兰大学。1997年，从伊朗到美国。

　　纳菲西因为《在德黑兰读<洛丽塔>》引起全世界的关注，她所获得的奖项还包括克里斯托弗•戈勃朗基金会国际思想与人文奖、东与阿冯尼•弗雷泽人权奖、伊丽莎白•安•斯通勇敢女性奖、美国移民法律基金会移民杰出成就奖、俄克拉荷马大学杰出校友奖等。蒙特霍里约克学院、斯腾山大学、戈切尔学院、巴德学院、以及拿撒勒学院等多个高校均向她授予了荣誉博士学位。

　　纳菲西的文章广受欢迎，多见于《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《华尔街日报》以及《新共和》等著名媒体。著作另有：《在德黑兰读<洛丽塔>:以阅读来记忆》《反地域：纳博科夫小说的批评性研究》《比比和绿色的声音》《想象共和国》等。

"The Things I Keep Silent" 【 Content Introduction 】

In Reading Lolita in Tehran, the Iranian writer Azhar Nafisi tells the story of a secret reading; In this book, she tells the secret story of an Iranian family in turbulent times, from grandmother to daughter. For all his prominence, Nafisi is not interested in chronicling the comings and going, or commenting on political life, or summarizing historical moments, but rather in describing the fragile crossroads of history, where people's lives and personalities reflect and resonate with a larger, broader story.

Like a sketch, the book is a haunting portrait of a woman, a family and a troubled country. The people and things that are growing up, the life that is interwoven with photos, words, stories, facts, and the gaps between the fragments of life, is what Nafisi seeks and hopes to tell - the silent things. For her, this narrative ultimately brings not closure, but understanding, protection, and freedom.

Silence takes many different forms: authoritarian governments impose silence on people, steal their memories, rewrite their history, and impose a national identity on them; The silence of the witness is the choice to ignore or not speak the truth; The silence of the victims makes them complicit in the crime that happened to them. Then there is our silence about ourselves, our silence about personal myths, our silence about the stories we impose on real life, to which we indulge. -- Azar Nafisi

About the author

AzarNafisi

Visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University and director of the Dialogue Studies Program at the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies. He taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Alamea Tabataba University in Iran. In 1981, he was expelled from Tehran University for refusing to wear a hijab. From Iran to the United States in 1997.

Nafissi, who gained worldwide attention for Reading Lolita in Tehran, has also received awards including the Christopher Goblin Foundation Award for International Thought and Humanities, the Dong and Afonie Fraser Human Rights Award, the Elizabeth Ann Stone Award for Courageous Women, the American Immigration Law Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Immigration, and the University of Oklahoma Distinguished Alumni Award. She has received honorary doctorates from Mount Holyock College, Steen Hill University, Goetscher College, Bard College, and Nazareth College.

Nafisi's articles have been widely read, appearing in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Republic. His other books include Reading Lolita in Tehran: Remembering by Reading, Anti-Region: A Critical Study of Nabokov's Novels, Bibi and the Green Voice, and the Republic of Imagination.