The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name is never given. He feels an overbearing need to recount an experience he went through that has shattered his whole existence. A beautiful woman, an old man and a cypress tree are the recurring motifs.

The Blind Owl

Hedayat, Sadegh

Calder & Boyars

Jacket Description/Back: Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And as the author gradually drifts into frenzy and madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition. The Blind Owl, which has been translated into many foreign languages, has often been compared to the writing of Edgar Allen Poe.

Literature & Fiction

GROVE PRESS

A young man drifts into despair and madness after losing a mysterious lover.

Literary

Boof-e koor (The Blind Owl) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it 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.

Boof-E Koor ( Persian Edition )

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Favayed-e giyahkhori (The Benefits of Vegetarianism) written in 1927 by Iranian modern writer Sadegh Hedayat, is one of the most important and influential works ever written in Persian about animal rights and vegetarianism. It is the more complete edition of Hedayat's older book about animal rights named Men and Animals . Based on the two mentioned books, some vegan parties in Iran tend to consider Sadegh Hedayat as the father of Iran's modern vegetarianism.

Favayed-E Giyahkhori ( Persian Edition ): The Benefits of Vegetarianism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Se Ghatreh Khoon (Three Drops of Blood) is a collection of 11 short stories by Sadegh Hedayat first published in 1932.

Se Ghatreh Khoon ( Persian Edition ): Three Drops of Blood

بوف کور (Persian Edition)

Genre Fiction

Kidsocado

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Taraneh-Haye Khayyam (Persian Edition)

World Literature

H&S Media

This collection of short stories, previously unpublished in English, displays the disturbing and evocative force of Hedayat’s writing, and confirms his place in the literary canon. They depict a world of revelation, uncanny similarity, grotesquery, and insanity. The title story, "Three Drops of Blood," follows the protagonist’s increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while "Hadji Murat" depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These are stories that, though set in a distinctive milieu, deal with universal truths and cut to the very essence of humanity.

Three Drops of Blood (Oneworld Modern Classics)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oneworld Classics

This is a reproduction of the Boof-e Koor (Blind Owl) hand-written by Sadegh Hedayat himself and printed in Bombay, India in 1936. Boof-e koor is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. It 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.

Boof-e Koor: Blind Owl, Original Text (Persian Edition)

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The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl

Boof-E Koor ( Persian Edition )

Favayed-E Giyahkhori ( Persian Edition ): The Benefits of Vegetarianism

Se Ghatreh Khoon ( Persian Edition ): Three Drops of Blood

بوف کور (Persian Edition)

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Taraneh-Haye Khayyam (Persian Edition)

Three Drops of Blood (Oneworld Modern Classics)

Boof-e Koor: Blind Owl, Original Text (Persian Edition)