Blind Owl

Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Iran Open Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9789186131449
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( 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.

Author : Rebecca Davis Winters
Publisher : Blind Owl Blues
ISBN 13 : 0615146171
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Owl Blues written by Rebecca Davis Winters and published by Blind Owl Blues. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis Winters journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Delta blues legend Son House and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again".

Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714544588
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( 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.

Author : Rebecca Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615792989
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blind Owl Blues written by Rebecca Davis and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Son House, and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again".

Author : Warner Shedd
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307421414
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind written by Warner Shedd and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd refutes popular animal myths like squirrels remembering where they bury nuts, wolves howling at the moon, and oppossums "playing dead." Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver carrying a load of mud on its tail, or ducked when a porcupine started throwing its quills? Probably not, says Shedd, former regional executive for the National Wildlife Federation. Offering scientific evidence that refutes many of the most tenacious and persevering folklore about wild animals, Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind will captivate you with fascinating facts and humorous anecdotes about more than thirty North American species-- some as familiar as the common toad, and others as elusive as the lynx. Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind is an entertaining dose of scientific reality for any nature enthusiast or armchair adventurer.

Author : Michael Craig Hillmann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hedāyat's 'The Blind Owl' Forty Years After written by Michael Craig Hillmann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219642X
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( 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.

Author : Michael Beard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861322
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( 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.

Author : Tharun B
Publisher : Google Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The blind owl and the irresponsible cuckoo written by Tharun B and published by Google Books. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of four amazing stories and colorful illustrations just for children. Do you know how owl became blind? Why the cuckoos lay eggs in crows nest? why the pelicans have swollen beak? Read to know. "An extraordinary read, don't miss"

Author : Jason Reza Jorjani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912975655
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novel Folklore written by Jason Reza Jorjani and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Novel Folklore," Jason Reza Jorjani offers a revolutionary interpretation of "The Blind Owl," revealing Hedayat's complex appropriation of libertine Gnostic and antinomian Tantric ideas. On Jorjani's reading, "The Blind Owl" is ultimately about the "Imaginal" metamorphosis of humans into higher beings...