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Author : Michael Craig Hillmann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
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)
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 : Sadeq Hedayat
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143136585
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Homa Katouzian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134079354
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
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: This edited collection brings together the foremost authorities on Sadeq Hedayat's work.
Author : Michael Beard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400861322
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
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 : Franco Moretti
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691243751
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Novel, Volume 1 written by Franco Moretti and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
Author : Sadegh Hedayat
Publisher : Iran Open Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9789186131449
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
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 : Nasrin Rahimieh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646353
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oriental Responses to the West written by Nasrin Rahimieh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further interdisciplinary discussions.
Author : Mohammad Khorrami
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317668774
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction written by Mohammad Khorrami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. The question of ‘who writes Iran’ refers to a contested area which goes beyond the discipline of literary criticism. Non-literary discourses have made every effort to impose their "committed" readings on literary texts; they have even managed to exert influence on the process of literary creation. In this process, inevitably, many works, or segments of them, and many concepts which do not lend themselves to such readings have been ignored; at the same time, many of them have been appropriated by these discourses. Yet components and elements of Persian literary tradition have persistently engaged in this discursive confrontation, mainly by insisting on literature’s relative autonomy, so that at least concepts such as conformity and subterfuge, essential in terms of defining modern and modernist Persian fiction, could be defined in a literary manner. Proffering an alternative in terms of literary historiography; this book supports a methodological approach that considers literary narratives which occur in the margins of dominant discourses, and indeed promote non-discursivity, as the main writers of Persian modernist fiction. It is an essential resource for scholars and researchers interested in Persian and comparative literature, as well as Middle Eastern Studies more broadly.
Author : J. Mohaghegh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114415
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East written by J. Mohaghegh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave.
