Work

بوف کور

aka Būf-e Kūr

The Blind Owl

Year
1937
Country
Iran
Genre
Novella / Light Novel
بوف کور
The Blind Owl is a Persian novella by Sadegh Hedayat that is about an isolated, unnamed narrator who recounts his obsessive love for an enigmatic woman and his gradual descent into psychological fragmentation, conveyed through a dark, hallucinatory narrative in which reality, memory, and nightmare become indistinguishable. It was published in 1315 SH and is considered to be Hedayat's magnum opus.
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