The Blind Owl (Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition) (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 married to a paranoid lunatic? Did nothing at all actually happen? The Blind Owl is a catastrophe y...

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 his whole existence. A beautiful woman, an old man and a cypress tree are the recurring motifs. My Re...

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 it is divided into two parts - a present and a past - everything feels timeless and like something h...

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 that there are rumors that it led to people dying by suicide.The book tells two versions of the same s...

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 spielt im Iran, und so haben die gruseligen und surrealen Elemente eine sehr orientalische Prägung. Ein ...