Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel

The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, "There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of can

• | By (Author): Michael Beard (Author)
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2014
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0691600813
• | ISBN-13: 9780691600819