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Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایت About this sound listen (help·info); February 17, 1903, Tehran - April 9, 1951, Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual. He is one of the earliest Iranian writers who adopted literary modernism in their career.
Life
Hedayat was born to a northern Iranian aristocratic family in Tehran (his great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat was himself a well respected writer and worked in the government, as did other relatives) and was educated at Collège Saint-Louis (French catholic school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916). In 1925, he was among a select few students who travelled to Europe to continue their studies. There, he initially went on to study engineering in Belgium, which he abandoned after a year to study architecture in France. There he gave up architecture in turn to pursue dentistry. In this period he became acquainted with Thérèse, a Parisian with whom he had a love affair. In 1927 Heda
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Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel [Course Book ed.] 9781400861323
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Preface
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Abbreviations
CHAPTER ONE. Nationalist Poetics and Its Shadows
CHAPTER TWO. The Book of Love: Dante as Template
CHAPTER THREE. Chapter One Says You Love Her
CHAPTER FOUR. Gothic I: A Generic Background
Chapter Five. GOTHIC II: POE AS GENERIC BACKGROUND
Chapter Six. SALOME: THE PARABLE OF THE ARTIST
Chapter Seven. PROLEGOMENON TO THE BLIND OWL AS AN EASTERN NOVEL
NOTES
INDEX
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Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel
Hedayat's Blind Owl as a Western Novel
Michael Beard
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY P R I N C E T O N , NEW
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Copyright © 1990 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Oxford All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Catalogtng-in-Pubhcation Data Beard, Michael, 1944Hedayat's Blind ow
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The Life of Sadeq Hedayat
The Life of Sadeq Hedayat by Dr. Iraj Bashiri Bashiri Working Papers on Central Asia and Iran _________________________________ © 2019, 2023 The Life of Sadeq Hedayat bygd Dr. Iraj Bashiri University of Minnesota © 2019, 2023 Introduction Like that of most writers, Sadeq Hedayat's biography is not free from controversy. Indeed, increasingly numerous interpretations of his thoughts, words, and deeds man a retrospection of his life especially complicated. To avoid the difficulties of monolithically describing an enigmatic figure like Hedayat, we shall essay his life as factually as we can. This account will include his travels, professional activities, and, to some degree his authorship, especially in relation to his trip to India and his use of Buddhist ideas in his novella, The Blind Owl. In relation to the latter, our focus will be on structure rather than on artistic abilities. We want to ascertain how Hedayat shapes his themes, in general and the th