The Blind Owl and Other Stories

Author

Sadeq Hedayat

Original Works

The Blind Owl·The Stray Dog·Three Drops of Blood

Translators

D. P. Costello·Deborah Miller Mostaghel

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

2017

Publisher

Alma

Pages

288

ISBN

9780714544588

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Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition in which two men are locked in a dungeon-like room with a cobra. Initially banned in the author's native Iran, the novel first appeared in Tehran in 1941 and became a bestseller. Full of powerful symbolism and terrifying imagery, this dark novella is Hedayat's masterpiece.— Google Books