← Sadegh HedayatThe Stray Dogby Sadegh HedayatFind on Amazon↗About the authorSadegh HedayatIranian 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.More by Sadegh HedayatThe Blind OwlNightmarish, philosophical novella about alienation and the futility of human existence→Buf-e Kur→Haji AghaSatirical story about a wealthy man's obsessive concern with his moral superiority→Three Drops of Blood→Buf Kur→Sag-e Velgard→