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Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award
A Penguin Classic
Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat’s conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.
Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award
A Penguin Classic
Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a two-part story of an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In first person, the narrator offers a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the exact same scene on the covers of pen cases: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who offers him a water lily. In a one-page transition, the reader finds the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. In part two, readers glimpse the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. In a new translation that reflects Hedayat’s conversational, confessional tone, Blind Owl joins the ranks of classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Kafka, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche.
Sassan Tabatabai was born in Tehran in 1967 and has been living in the United States since 1980. He is a poet, translator, and scholar of medieval Persian literature. He is Master Lecturer in World Languages and Literatures and the Core Curriculum, and Coordinator of the Persian Language Program at Boston University. Tabatabai is the author of Father of Persian Verse: Rudaki and His Poetry (Leiden University Press, 2010), Uzunburun: Poems (Pen and Anvil Press, 2011), and Sufi Haiku (Nemi Books, 2021).
FOR READERS OF KAFKA, POE, AND DOSTOEVSKY: Blind Owl would appeal to readers of the dark, psychologically-charged works of Kafka, Poe and Dostoevsky. It would also appeal to works that explore the dark recesses of the human psyche such as works by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk, along with Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Burgess' A Clockwork Orange.
ANNIVERSARY: 2021 will be the 85th anniversary of the first publication of The Blind Owl.
PERSIAN PENGUIN CLASSICS: Blind Owl is a great twentieth-century addition to our growing Penguin Classics list of Persian classics including Layli and Majnun, The Mirror of My Heart, Faces of Love, and Shahnameh.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143136583 |
| ISBN-10: | 0143136585 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Originalsprache: | Persisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 765526 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hedayat, Sadeq |
| Übersetzung: | Tabatabai, Sassan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Penguin Classics |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Maße: | 196 x 131 x 10 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Sadeq Hedayat |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 28.04.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,103 kg |
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