The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition)

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By Sadegh Hedayat & Naveed Noori

The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition) by Sadegh Hedayat & Naveed Noori digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story.

63 Reviews

3.5

Kittycity95

Created 29 days ago

Lukka

Created about 1 month ago

“Prepare yourself (mentally) if you want to read this book.”

Unlikable Dark Beautifully-written Descriptive Hard to follow Explicit sexual content Misogyny Murder Violence

stefan

Created 2 months ago

“Are classical authors so egregiously incapable of writing a story with a protagonist not committing some sort of debauchery and unbelievably dehumanising acts towards women that is unfortunate normalcy in their time. Perhaps this is why classic enthusiasts enjoy such a genre to experience wanton inflicted misogyny in our neo progressive age, like an intrusive thought brought to life. I honestly dont really know wtf happens in this book but it's written beautifully and i probably do not want to read or dissect the jumble of pretty words in a narrative again. Something something inner turmoil and schizophrenia and no longer human-esque, with very much profound imagery that i perhaps need several video essays to fully comprehend the motif of this word”

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Iris

Created 2 months ago

“I really can’t say I’ve ever read a book quite like this. I also can’t say I enjoyed it, but it was rather good. Definitely requires a reread but I rather recommend it. Edit: It seems I rather like the word rather”

Misogyny Murder

Andy C

Created 3 months ago

“3.5 The book shifts between the narrator's romantic & sexual desires and macabre thoughts about his suffering and existence. The repetitive imagery combined with the narrator's shifting moods, offers a fresh experience each time. BUT, the second part of the book felt less imaginative than the first, and I didn’t like how the conjecture between the two parts seemed to fall apart.”

About Sadegh Hedayat

Sadegh Hedayat was born on 17 February 1903 in Tehran, at his father's house. His father was Hedayat Gholi Khan-e Hedayat (E'tezad-Ol-Molk),son of Jafar GholiKhan-e Hedayat,his mother was ,Ozra-Zivar-Ol-Moluk Hedayat,daughter of Hossein GholiKhan-e Mokhber-ol-Dole the second. His parent was from the line of Reza GholiKhan; who was one of the famous Iranian writers, poets and historians in 13th century; that was Kamal Khojandi descents. He went to Elmieh Primary school, Tehran in 1909, and after completing his basic education and then started his high school at Darolfonun in 1914. Because of eye trouble, there was a break in his education in 1914, but he continued his education in Saint Louis School at Tehran, where he got familiar with French language and literature in 1917. He completed his secondary education and was sent with the other Iranian students to Belgium for higher education in 1925. At first, he studied in "Gand" Port University, but he declared his dissatisfaction, because of bad weather and his education situation, so he was transferred to Paris to continue his studies. In1928, Sadegh Hedayat, attempted to his first suicide by throwing himself into Marne River in Samoi, but he was rescued by the people in a boat. Finally, in 1930, he returned back to Tehran and in that year he was hired in Bank Melli Iran. In those days "Rabe Group" was formed including Bozorg Alavi, Massud Farzad, Mojtaba Minavi and Sadegh Hedayat.In 1932, he traveled to Isfahan and also started his work at General Department of Commerce. In 1933, he traveled to Shiraz and stayed in his uncle's house (Dr.Kraim Hedayat) for awhile. In 1934, he resigned from General Department of Commerce and commenced his work at Ministry Of Foreign Affairs; he resigned from Ministry Of Foreign Affairs in 1935, and in that year he was summoned by Police Investigation Department and interrogated for the context of the book "Mister Bow Wow". In 1936,he commenced working at General Department of Construction and traveled to India ,he started learning "Pahlavi Language" with an Indian researcher and professor; Bahram Goor Anklesaria. In 1937, he returned back to Tehran, started working in Bank Melli Iran again, he resigned from there again in 1938, and started working at State Music Department and also cooperating with "Music Magazine". In 1940 he commenced his work at Fine Art Faculty of Tehran University as translator, and cooperating with "Sokhan Magazine" in 1943.He went to Tashkent by the invitation of The State University of Middle Asia in Uzbekistan in 1945, and also cooperated with "Payam e Now Magazine". In that year a ceremony for honoring Sadegh Hedayat was held in Iran and Soviet Union Cultural Society, in 1949.He was invited to participate in The World Congress of Peace but he could not attend because of his administrative problems. In 1950, he went to Paris and on April 8 1951, in that city, he committed suicide by gaz.He was 48 years old when got himself free from life pains, his grave was in Pere-la Chaise Cemetery in Paris. He spent all his life in his father's house.

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Naveed Noori

Naveed Noori is the pseudonym for an Iranian writer whose first novel, Dakhmeh, was selected by Barnes and Nobles as part of their “Great New Writers Series” in 2003. In 2012 his translation of Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl was published under the auspices of the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation and the L’Aleph. He has translated several works for the Iranian writer Moniro Ravanipur, one of which has appeared in Paul Revere’s Horse in 2011. Naveed Noori is also the author of several short stories. His short story entitled “The Fortune Seller” was published in Hayden’s Ferry Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2009. He is currently working on his second novel based on the aforementioned short story.