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The Blind Owl and Other Stories

Sadegh Hedayat author DP Costello translator Deborah Miller Mostaghel translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Alma Books Ltd

Published:28th Sep '17

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Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation.

Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious.Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition in which two men are locked in a dungeon-like room with a cobra. Initially banned in the author’s native Iran, the novel first appeared in Tehran in 1941 and became a bestseller. Full of powerful symbolism and terrifying imagery, this dark novella is Hedayat’s masterpiece.

The father of modern Persian short stories. * The Guardian *

ISBN: 9780714544588

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 328g

304 pages