The Blind Owl

by Sadegh Hedayat · first published 1937

The Blind Owl (Persian: بوف کور, Būf-e Kūr ) is a Persian novella by Sadegh Hedayat that is about an isolated, unnamed narrator who recounts his obsessive love for an enigmatic woman and his gradual descent into psychological fragmentation, conveyed through a dark, hallucinatory narrative in which reality, memory, and nightmare become indistinguishable. It was published in 1315 SH (1936 or 1937) and is considered to be Hedayat's magnum opus.

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Genre:

Horror fiction, Weird fiction

Original language:

Persian

Year page:

1937