TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beard,Michael
TI  - Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel
T2  - Princeton legacy library
SN  - 9781400861323
AV  - PK6561.H43 B8334 1990
U1  - 891/.5533 23
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Hidāyat, Ṣādiq,
KW  - Būf-i kūr (Hidāyat, Ṣādiq)
KW  - fast
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ""Cover ""; ""Contents""
N2  - 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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