The Blind Owl
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Originally published | 1936 |
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Authors | Sadegh Hedayat |
Genres | Novel |
Translator | Desmond Patrick Costello |
Country | Iran |
Characters | The Narrator's Wife |
The Narrator's Uncle | |
The Narrator's Mother | |
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The Girl | |
The Narrator's Father | |
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ID | 1248645 |
About The Blind Owl
The Blind Owl is Sadegh Hedayat's also magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary.