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The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat; D. P. Costello; Porochista Khakpour is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Blind Owl about?

Recognized as the outstanding Iranian writer of the twentieth century, Sadegh Hedayat is credited with having brought his country's language and literature into the mainstream of contemporary writing. The Blind Owl, long considered a classic and often compared to the works of Poe, chillingly recreates the labyrinthine movements of a deranged mind. The young woman who haunts the narrator is first introduced as a stranger with jet-black hair and wide, haunting eyes. She creeps into the narrator's room but he realizes, upon touching her, that she is lifeless and cold. The narrator, a painter and opium addict, packs the woman's corpse into a suitcase and takes her to an remote spot along the banks of a river, where he buries her. Along the way he meets an old man with a spine-chilling laugh who becomes the first in a stream of recurring mental images: four cadaverous black horses with rasping coughs, a hidden urn of poisoned wine, a sheep butcher, and a small painting of a woman on the back of a pen-case soon follow. Through a series of intricately woven events that revolve around these images, the narrator is compelled to record his obsession with the woman even as it drives him furth

Who reads The Blind Owl?

Author

Sadegh Hedayat; D. P. Costello; Porochista Khakpour

Publisher

Grove Atlantic;Grove Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802196422

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Horror

Rating

3.99 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13