Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian
writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and he 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 what was a 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. Katouzian discusses
Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles
with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness
and universality of those ideas that have set Hedayat apart from
other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a
mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success.
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