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The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat

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The Blind Owl is a Persian novella by Sadegh Hedayat that is about an isolated, unnamed narrator who recounts his obsessive love for an enigmatic woman and his gradual descent into psychological fragmentation, conveyed through a dark, hallucinatory narrative in which reality, memory, and nightmare become indistinguishable. It was published in 1315 SH and is considered to be Hedayat's magnum opus.

First published 1957 156 pages
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ISBN 9647033117 English
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