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Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel (Hardcover)
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Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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.
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