Hedayat’s Animals: The Blind Owl and Other Stories

Sadegh Hedayat (1903-1951) was one of Iran’s most prolific post-modernist writers in the first half of the 20th century. He has often been called the “Iranian Kafka,” since many of his stories discuss surrealist themes, dealing with existential angst and nightmarish situations. This blog discusses Hedayat’s most famous works, such as his opus magnum, the Blind Owl, published in 1937. Other novels mentioned in the blog are famous in Iranian pop culture (such as Dash Akol which was made into a ...