The Blind Owl
A surrealist monologue from Sadegh Hedayat
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A surrealist monologue from Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh Hedayat’s short novel is presented as a single, unsettled narrator’s monologue, shaped by hallucinations and psychological imaginings. Its opening passage describes private wounds that resist explanation and the temporary escape offered by forgetting, sleep, and intoxicants. That framing places isolation and inner distress at the heart of the book, while its surrealist mode makes the narrator’s perceptions central to the reading experience. The source identifies the work as a major twentieth-century Iranian literary text and notes that it has been translated from Persian into several languages, including English and French.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Readers interested in twentieth-century Iranian literature and Persian fiction in translation.
- Readers seeking a short novel built around a solitary narrator and psychological imaginings.
- Readers interested in surrealist fiction and themes of isolation and inner distress.
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