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Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel
Contributors:
By (Author) Michael Beard
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Dewey:
891.5533
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
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
