Hedayat, Sadeq
Blind Owl
- ISBN 13:
- 9780143136583
- author:
- Hedayat, Sadeq
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 112
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Classics, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Blind Owl is a new English translation of one of the most important Iranian novels of the twentieth century. Written by Sadeq Hedayat, this Penguin Classic tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator struggling with time and reality. The narrator's recollections are hazy and dreamlike, fueled by opium and alcohol, as he paints the same scene on pen case covers: an old man in a cape and turban under a cypress tree, separated from a woman in black who offers him a water lily. The narrative shifts abruptly, revealing the narrator covered in blood and waiting for arrest. A new translation that reflects Hedayat's conversational tone brings this complex story to life. Blind Owl joins the ranks of literary works by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, exploring the dark recesses of the human psyche.
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