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The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl
Cover designed by Sadegh Hedayat
AuthorSadegh Hedayat
LanguagePersian
Publication date
1937
Publication placeIran
Published in English
1957
ISBN978-1-84749-069-8

The Blind Owl (1936; Persian: بوف کور, Boof-e koor, listen) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th-century Iran. Written in Persian, it is narrated by an unnamed pen case painter, who addresses his murderous confessions to a shadow on his wall that resembles 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.

Sadegh Hedayat, Tehran, 1930

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