Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel /

Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel /

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Author / Creator:	Beard, Michael, 1944- author.
Imprint:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
Description:	1 online resource (287 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton legacy library Princeton legacy library.
Subject:	Hidāyat, Ṣādiq, -- 1903-1951. -- Būf-i kūr. Hidāyat, Ṣādiq, -- 1903-1951 -- Knowledge -- Literature. Hidāyat, Ṣādiq, -- 1903-1951. Būf-i kūr (Hidāyat, Ṣādiq) Literature. Electronic books. Literature.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275382

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ISBN:	9781400861323 1400861322 9780691031378 0691031371 0691600813 9780691600819
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2015).
Summary:	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 advoc.
Other form:	Print version: Beard, Michael. Hedayat's Blind owl as a Western novel. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990] xi, 270 pages ; 23 cm Princeton legacy library 9780691600819

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