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.words : 80328Number of Formats : 0Title Length : 031Title Parm F : The Blind Owl and Other StoriesTitle Parm D : The Blind Owl and Other StoriesRecord ID : TEMPLATE ERROR Value: unknown field idNum of Aut : 1Has Cover : TEMPLATE ERROR Interpreter: Internal error evaluating an expression: 'Metadata object has no attribute named: 'has_cover'' - line number 1Single Author : Hedayat, SadeghTitle Parm B : (Title Parm A : The Blind Owl and Other StoriesUncomma Author : Sadegh HedayatSorted Author by LN, FN: Hedayat, SadeghNumber of Words in Auth: 2

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Ṣādiq Hidāyat, D. P. Costello, Deborah Miller Mostaghel

Hedayat, Sadeq

Sadegh Hedayat

Sadeq Hedayat

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Oneworld Classics Ltd

Overture Publishing

Alma Books Ltd.

Alma Classics

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New edition, London, 2017

Richmond, Surrey, 2017

2017-10-09

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. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature, a ritual of destruction as gradually the narrator, and the reader, discover the meaning hidden within the dreams. This unforgettable story contains a unique blend of the mystery of the Arabian Nights and an acutely contemporary sense of panic and hallucination. The Blind Owl was written during the oppressive latter years of Reza Shah's rule (1925–41). It was originally published in a limited edition in Bombay, during Hedayat's year-long stay there in 1937, stamped with “Not for sale or publication in Iran”. It first appeared in Tehran in 1941 (as a serial in the daily Iran), after Erza Shah's abdication, and had an immediate and forceful effect.”

2024-06-27