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Original Title:	بوف کور
ISBN:	0802131808 (ISBN13: 9780802131805)
Edition Language:	English

The Blind Owl

Sadegh Hedayat

Paperback | Pages: 148 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 18098 Users | 1557 Reviews

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Title	:	The Blind Owl
Author	:	Sadegh Hedayat
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 148 pages
Published	:	January 11th 1994 by Grove Press (first published 1935)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Iran. Novels. Literature

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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. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition. The Blind Owl, which has been translated into many foreign languages, has often been compared to the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.

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It gave me nightmares.

Obsession, delerium, disintegration. Repetition and narrative instability. Empty temples, tombs, secret poisons. Desire tuned towards death and vice versa. Basically, somehow, the entire template for 70s-Robbe-Grillet, and by extension, some of Dennis Cooper's The Marbled Swarm, spontaneously arisen from 1930s Iran. If the narrator (narrators?) has a desperately problematic relationship to the women in his life -- exalting or loathing without any human middle ground, only tending towards



I didn't 'love' this novel, I didn't 'enjoy' it either. To be honest I can't find a word to explain how I feel about this book! I'm not even quite sure how to rate this book. I just know that 'the blind owl' is a book I will remember forever.

This bleak but brilliant collection of stories opens with Hedayat's best-known work, 'The Blind Owl', a surreal tale of love and death. The narrative is circular and intense, with recurring themes and images that relate to all the senses - a girl bites her nails, drunken soldiers sing a particular song, the taste of bitter cucumber lingers on the skin - as the reader tries to distinguish truth from illusion, or insanity. It is powerful and puzzling, a great opener to the collection.For its

Is it just me, or does this look like something to be buried in?A melancholic decorator of Persian pen cases (see above) experiences strange visions, dissolved boundaries between his art and reality, inexplicable longing, mysterious midnight visitors, gory hallucinatory chores, and horse-drawn hearse rides through gloomy star-lit mists, all embroidered with multiple threads of déjà vu and a dreamy sense of such enveloping accursedness that it would prompt Edgar Allen Poe himself to say "Whoa,

As is the case with a lot of well written emotionally driven, individualistic, (tortured) first person narrative literature, this felt like you were living inside the narrators body. It strangely reminded me at first of Dostoyevsky's Notes From The Underground, and then it reminded me of Kafka's Metamorphosis, and lastly it reminded me of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iylch, and really, the common factor between all four works is the overwhelming, pressed sense of isolation. The blind Owl,