Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, The Blind Owl, has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attention of Western critics. But Hedayat’s impact on the development of modern fiction and on the lives of generations of Iranian intellectuals derives also from his other works and from his unique approach to life and art in a rapidly changing society. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat’s life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Homa Katouzian discusses Hedayat’s life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasizes the uniqueness and universality of those ideas that have set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success.
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"...a wealth of invaluable social background, much of it appearing for the first time." -- World Literature Today
"...an eminently readable book which all who want to understand Iran ought to read." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)
"...an eminently readable book which all who want to understand Iran ought to read." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)
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Homa Katouzian is a specialist writer on Iran and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent.
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Sadeq Hedayat was born in 1903 and died in 1951. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blind owl, ethereal woman, old hunchback, chilling laughter, bazaar merchant, traditional merchant, official academy, oil agreement, official nationalism, literary revolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reza Shah, Haji Aqa, Amir Kabir, Ketab-e Sadeq Hedayat, Al-e Ahmad, Hasan Qa'emiyan, Parviz Khanlary, Constitutional Revolution, New York, Homa Katouzian, Khalil Maleki, Dash Akol, Aziz Agha, Sag-e Velgard, Soviet Union, Seh Qatreh Khun, Bozorg Alavi, Mojtaba Minovi, Taqi Razavi, Alaviyeh Khanom, Kaka Rostam, Mahmud Katira'i, Bank Melli, Ehsan Tabari, Forty Years After New!
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Sadeq Hedayat was born in 1903 and died in 1951. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blind owl, ethereal woman, old hunchback, chilling laughter, bazaar merchant, traditional merchant, official academy, oil agreement, official nationalism, literary revolution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Reza Shah, Haji Aqa, Amir Kabir, Ketab-e Sadeq Hedayat, Al-e Ahmad, Hasan Qa'emiyan, Parviz Khanlary, Constitutional Revolution, New York, Homa Katouzian, Khalil Maleki, Dash Akol, Aziz Agha, Sag-e Velgard, Soviet Union, Seh Qatreh Khun, Bozorg Alavi, Mojtaba Minovi, Taqi Razavi, Alaviyeh Khanom, Kaka Rostam, Mahmud Katira'i, Bank Melli, Ehsan Tabari, Forty Years After New!
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- The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat on 54 pages
- The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka on 5 pages
- Musaddiq and the Struggle For Power in Iran by Homa Katouzian on 4 pages
- Ideology and Method in Economics by Homa Katouzian on page 282, page 289, and page 292
- Les Paradis artificiels (French Edition) by Charles Baudelaire on page 22
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