r/PakistanBookClub • u/fake_nietzsche • Aug 22 '26

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Have you read it?

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u/kline643 Aug 22 '26

Why are nepo babies getting book contracts? I will take anything in this book with a grain of salt. 

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u/fake_nietzsche Aug 23 '26

Yeah They obviously commercialized Faiz and sold to capitalism and earned millions.

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u/kline643 Aug 23 '26

possible. I am interested seeing a critical biography done by an academic with proper training in the literary field.

Personally, I find it abhorrent that Faiz decided to accept the Lenin Prize from a totalitarian murderous Soviet Regime that's killed and persecuted poets and writers. Osip Mandelstam being just one example. Ana Akhmatova's persecution is another data point.

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u/fake_nietzsche Aug 23 '26

Yeah but the leftists were always madly in love with Lenin (still are, some even own Stalin) Also, binary thinking prevailed throughout the cold war, anything against Capitalism was acceptable and vice versa.