The blind owl novel6/29/2023 ![]() But while it may seem to sacrifice character development in favor of mood, in the manner of a prose poem, and while it does convey the trance-like states and hallucinations produced by the narrator’s opium smoking, The Blind Owl is actually an intricate narrative exercise whose formal elements perfectly express the density of its metaphysical and metapsychological preoccupations. These elements, together with the writer’s personal habits, have given the work its unwarranted reputation as a druginduced, formless, and singularly incomprehensible reverie suffused with intimations of mortality and populated by its harbingers. He has generally owed his reputation to his extraordinary and enigmatic novella The Blind Owl, which on the surface is reminiscent of Thomas De Quincey’s opiated phantasmagoria and Edgar Allan Poe’s hysterical first-person narratives of obsessive morbidity, murder, and deathless corpses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sadeq Hedayat (1903–51) was for many decades the best-known modern prose writer in Persian, the language of a country whose purified literary lexicon and restrictive linguistic formalism he sought to violate by introducing crude idioms and colloquial phrases. Analysis of Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl ![]()
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