The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

ISBN: 0802131808

ISBN 13: 9780802131805

Publication Date: 1957

Publisher: Grove Press

Pages: 148

Authors: Sadegh Hedayat, D.P. Costello

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Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition. The Blind Owl, which has been translated into many foreign languages, has often been compared to the writing of Edgar Allan Poe.