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Sadeq Hedayat

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Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755642139
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Sadeq Hedayat written by Homa Katouzian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in a rapidly changing Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of his ideas that have both influenced and set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success with acclaimed works such as The Blind Owl. This second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect on recent debates and scholarship on Sadeq Hadeyat.

Sadeq Hedayat

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Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134079354
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Sadeq Hedayat written by Homa Katouzian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction: the wondrous world of Sadeq Hedayat / Homa Katouzian -- 2. Sadeq Hedayat's Centenary: report of events in Tehran, and personal recollections / Jahangir Hedayat -- 3. Sadeq Hedayat and the classics: the case of the Blind owl / Marta Simidchieva -- 4. The Blind owl: present in the past or the story of a dream / Houra Yavari -- 5. Influence as debt: The Blind Owl in the literary marketplace / Michael Beard -- 6. The Blind owl and the Sound and the fury / Bahram Meghdadi -- 7. Women in Hedayat's Fiction / Homa Katouzian -- 8. Satire in Hajji Aqa / Firouzeh Khazrai -- 9. Narrative identity in the works of Hedayat's and his contemporaries / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi -- 10. Hedayat's translations of Kafka and the logic of Iranian modernity / Nasrin Rahimieh -- 11. Hedayat and the experience of modernity / Ramin Jahanbegloo -- 12. Hedayat, vegetarianism and modernity / Hushang Philosoph -- 13. Man and animal in Hedayat's Stray Dog / Homa Katouzian.

The Blind Owl

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Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Iran Open Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9789186131449
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Owl written by Sadegh Hedayat and published by Iran Open Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life. If at times we come to a halt, we do so to hear the call of death... Throughout our lives, the finger of death points at us." The narrator addresses his murderous confessions to the shadow on his wall resembling an owl. His confessions do not follow a linear progression of events and often repeat and layer themselves thematically, thus lending to the open-ended nature of interpretation of the story.

The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat

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Author : Iraj Bashiri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat written by Iraj Bashiri and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sadeq Hedayat

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Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755642155
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Sadeq Hedayat written by Homa Katouzian and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in a rapidly changing Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of his ideas that have both influenced and set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success with acclaimed works such as The Blind Owl. This second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect on recent debates and scholarship on Sadeq Hadeyat.

Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel

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Author : Michael Beard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861322
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel written by Michael Beard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 advocacy for a disturbing and powerful piece of fiction, his comprehensive analysis reveals the significance of The Blind Owl as a milestone not only for Persian writing but also for world literature. The international, decentered nature of modernist writing outside the West, typified by Hedayat's European education and wide reading in the Western canon, suggested to Beard the strategy of assessing The Blind Owl as if it were a Western novel. Viewed in this context, Hedayat's intricate chronicle challenges the very notion of a national literature, rethinking and reshaping our traditions until we are compelled, "through its eyes," to see them in a new way. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Three Drops of Blood and Other Stories

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Author : Sadeq Hedayat
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847492821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Three Drops of Blood and Other Stories written by Sadeq Hedayat and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, previously unpublished in English, displays all the evocative force of Hedayat's writing, and confirms his place in the literary canon. The title story follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hajji Morad' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. Written before the revolution of 1979, Hedayat's stories were banned by the Tehran authorities in 2006. Addressing themes such as marriage and divorce customs and the displacement of Iran's ancient Zoroastrian faith, they have acquired a new relevance in recent decades.

The Myth of Creation

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Author : Ṣādiq Hidāyat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Creation written by Ṣādiq Hidāyat and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Creation [Afsaneh-ye Afarinesh] is one of the earliest works by Iran's best-known twentieth-century writer, Sadeq Hedayat, whose popularity outside Iran is due mostly to his short novel, The Blind Owl. Little has been written in critical literature about this work, perhaps because critics find the subject matter too sensitive for its generally Jewish, Christian and Moslem audiences. Given the general plot line of this story, Hedayat demonstrates an open skepticism towards the three major Middle Eastern religions, particularly Islam, by casting the characters of his story in the form of puppets. This suggests that even the "creator," as perceived by these three religions, is a mere puppet controlled by unseen hands.

The Blind Owl and Other Stories

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Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714544588
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Owl and Other Stories written by Sadegh Hedayat and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition in which two men are locked in a dungeon-like room with a cobra. Initially banned in the author's native Iran, the novel first appeared in Tehran in 1941 and became a bestseller. Full of powerful symbolism and terrifying imagery, this dark novella is Hedayat's masterpiece.

The Blind Owl

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Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219642X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Blind Owl written by Sadegh Hedayat and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An opium addict spirals into madness after losing a mysterious lover in this “extraordinary work” of modern Persian literature (The Times Literary Supplement, UK). Sadegh Hedayat was Iran’s most renowned modern fiction writer, and his spine-tingling novel The Blind Owl is considered his seminal work. A classic of modern Iranian literature, this edition is presented to contemporary audiences with a new introduction by Porochista Khakpour, one of the most exciting voices from a new generation of Iranian-American authors. A haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation, The Blind Owl tells the story of a young opium addict’s despair after losing a mysterious lover. Through a series of intricately woven events that revolve around the same set of mental images—an old man with a spine-chilling laugh, four cadaverous black horses with rasping coughs, a hidden urn of poisoned wine—the narrator is compelled to record his obsession with a beautiful woman even as it drives him further into frenzy and madness.

World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity

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Author : Omid Azadibougar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981151691X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity written by Omid Azadibougar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the canonical figure Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) and draws a comprehensive image of a major intellectual force in the context of both modern Persian Literature and World Literature. A prolific writer known for his magnum opus, The Blind Owl (1936), Hedayat established the use of common language for literary purposes, opened new horizons on imaginative literature and explored a variety of genres in his creative career. This book looks beyond the reductive critical tendencies that read a rich and diverse literary profile in light of Hedayat’s suicide, arguing instead that his literary imagination was not solely the result of genius but rather enriched by a vast network of the world’s literary traditions. This study reflects on Hedayat’s attempts at various genres of artistic creation, including painting, fiction writing, satire and scholarly research, as well as his persistent struggles for artistic authenticity, which transcended solidly established literary and artistic norms. Providing a critical reading of Hedayat’s work to untangle aspects of his writing – including reflections on science, religion, nationalism and coloniality – alongside his pioneering work on folk culture, and how humor informs his writings, this text offers a critical review of the status of Persian literature in the contemporary landscape of the world’s literary studies.

Omnicide

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Author : Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0997567465
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Omnicide written by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to study this riddle in all its mystifying complexity and its disturbing contemporary resonance—to trace the obscure passage between a lone state of delirium and the will to world-erasure.. A fragmentary catalogue of the thousand-and-one varieties of manic disposition (augomania, dromomania, catoptromania, colossomania…), Omnicide enters the chaotic imaginations of the most significant poetic talents of the Middle East in order to instigate a new discourse on obsession, entrancement, excess, and delirium. Placing these voices into direct conversation, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh excavates an elaborate network of subterranean ideas and interpretive chambers, byways, and burrows by which mania communicates with fatality. Like secret passages leading from one of the multitudinous details of a bustling Persian miniature to the blank burning immanence of the desert, each is a contorted yet effective channel connecting some attractive universe (of adoration, worship, or astonishment) to the instinct for all-engulfing oblivion (through hatred, envy, indifference, rage, or forgetting). A captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, Omnicide absorbs the reader into unfamiliar and estranging landscapes whose every subtle euphoric aspect threatens to become an irresistible invitation to the end of all things.

Blind Owl

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Author : Sadeq Hedayat
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143136585
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Blind Owl written by Sadeq Hedayat and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award A Penguin Classic Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat’s conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.

The Odyssey

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Author : Homer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191646504
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a horde of over 100 disorderly and arrogant suitors are vying to claim Odysseus' wife Penelope, and his young son Telemachus is powerless to stop them. Meanwhile, Odysseus is driven beyond the limits of the known world, encountering countless divine and earthly challenges. But Odysseus is 'of many wiles' and his cunning and bravery eventually lead him home, to reclaim both his family and his kingdom. The Odyssey rivals the Iliad as the greatest poem of Western culture and is perhaps the most influential text of classical literature. This elegant and compelling new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes that guide the reader in understanding the poem and the many different contexts in which it was performed and read.

The Prince

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Author : Hūshang Gulshīrī
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099468394
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Prince written by Hūshang Gulshīrī and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-1920s Iran in a crumbling house in a provincial town, the last survivor of a deposed dynasty is slowly dying from tuberculosis. The old prince's domain has been reduced to his domestic household, where the former glories of his ancestors haunt him. Drifting in and out of reality, the prince relives episodes of his forbearers' exulted and often brutal past; a macabre time of public despotism when men were put to death by being sheathed in plaster, and when a child might be beheaded as punishment for poor schoolwork. Long-dead relatives threaten menacingly from photographs the old prince surrounds himself with, damaged images fleetingly brought to life by a fractured hallucinatory mind, only to fade away as another vestige from the past rattles in its picture frame. As hazy memories bleed into one another, it soon becomes clear that the most torturous for the dying man is that of his wife Fakronessa, who used to taunt him with the energy and violence of his grandfather and great-grandfather, forcing him then to avenge himself by sleeping with their servant Fakhri, and subsequently driving his wife to an early grave.

Joycean Legacies

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Author : Martha C. Carpentier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137503629
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Joycean Legacies written by Martha C. Carpentier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve essays analyze the complex pleasures and problems of engaging with James Joyce for subsequent writers, discussing Joyce's textual, stylistic, formal, generic, and biographical influence on an intriguing selection of Irish, British, American, and postcolonial writers from the 1940s to the twenty-first century.

Sadeq Hedayat, an Anthology

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Author : Rseadiq Hideayat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sadeq Hedayat, an Anthology written by Rseadiq Hideayat and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: