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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 can



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xv*CHAPTER ONE. Nationalist Poetics and Its Shadows, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. The Book of Love: Dante as Template, pg. 42*CHAPTER THREE. Chapter One Says You Love Her, pg. 68*CHAPTER FOUR. Gothic I: A Generic Background, pg. 103*Chapter Five. GOTHIC II: POE AS GENERIC BACKGROUND, pg. 140*Chapter Six. SALOME: THE PARABLE OF THE ARTIST, pg. 177*Chapter Seven. PROLEGOMENON TO THE BLIND OWL AS AN EASTERN NOVEL, pg. 219*NOTES, pg. 238*INDEX, pg. 263

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 7/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780691600819, 978-0691600819
      ISBN10: 0691600813

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 can



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xv*CHAPTER ONE. Nationalist Poetics and Its Shadows, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. The Book of Love: Dante as Template, pg. 42*CHAPTER THREE. Chapter One Says You Love Her, pg. 68*CHAPTER FOUR. Gothic I: A Generic Background, pg. 103*Chapter Five. GOTHIC II: POE AS GENERIC BACKGROUND, pg. 140*Chapter Six. SALOME: THE PARABLE OF THE ARTIST, pg. 177*Chapter Seven. PROLEGOMENON TO THE BLIND OWL AS AN EASTERN NOVEL, pg. 219*NOTES, pg. 238*INDEX, pg. 263

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