The Blind Owl (Paperback)

from varielle

This was enthralling though I didn't understand a darn thing. Is this a hallucination of a man on drugs? Is this a picture of increasing madness culminating in murder? Is the wife an innocent party...

from EadieB

Book Description The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name is never given. He feels an overbearing need to recount an experience he went through that has shattered h...

from DieFledermaus

The Blind Owl is a gorgeously written opium nightmare. The plot is circular and surreal and much of this slim book is taken up by the narrator's claustrophobic musings on death and decay. Although ...

from ASKelmore

This is an extremely important work of Iranian fiction, written in the 1930s. It was chosen by someone in one of the book clubs I participate in. According to the introduction, it is so shocking th...

from Wassilissa

Speziell der Kurzroman "Die blinde Eule" am Anfang des Buches hat etwas sehr Fantastisches und erinnert mich in Sprache und Handlung an Edgar Alan Poe oder sogar H. P. Lovecraft. Aber das Buch spie...