Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel / Michael Beard.

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Beard, Michael, 1944- [author.]

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online resource

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9781400861323
1400861322
9780691031378
0691031371
0691600813
9780691600819

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel.DDC classification:

891/.5533 23

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PK6561.H43 B8334 1990

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Summary: The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, ""There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker, "" is one of the best known and most frequently recited passages of modern Persian. But underneath the book's uncanniness and its narrative eccentricities, Michael Beard traces an elegant pastiche of familiar Western traditions. A work of advoc.

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The Iranian writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most influential figure in twentieth-century Persian fiction--and the object of a kind of cult after his suicide in 1951. His masterpiece The Blind Owl is the most important novel of modern Iran. Its abrupt, tortured opening sentence, ""There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker, "" is one of the best known and most frequently recited passages of modern Persian. But underneath the book's uncanniness and its narrative eccentricities, Michael Beard traces an elegant pastiche of familiar Western traditions. A work of advoc.

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