death-haunted masterpiece The Blind Owl shadows the decline of modern Iran
- Written by Hossein Asgari, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Adelaide University
Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) abandoned his training in dentistry and, later, engineering in France and Belgium, to study old Persian and Iranian mythology. He would become one of the first modernist fiction writers in Iran. He published stories, essays and plays, but The Blind Owl, a short enigmatic novel, has been celebrated as his masterpiece.
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