Sadegh Hedayat

The Blind Owl

Nightmarish, philosophical novella about alienation and the futility of human existence

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Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat

Iranian novelist and short story writer whose novella The Blind Owl is the most celebrated work of modern Persian fiction. Written in a nightmarish, surrealist mode, it meditates on death, beauty, and the disintegration of the self.

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