1st Edition

Sadeq Hedayat His Work and his Wondrous World

Edited By Homa Katouzian Copyright 2008
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl , the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and... Read more

Dedication


Preface


Introduction: The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat


HOMA KATOUZIAN


Sadeq Hedayat’s Centenary: Report of Events, and Personal Recollections

JAHANGIR HEDAYAT


Sadeq Hedayat and the Classics: The Case of The Blind Owl


MARTA SIMIDCHIEVA


The Blind Owl: Present in the Past or the Story of a Dream


HOURA YAVARI


Influence as Debt


MICAHEL BEARD


The Blind Owl and the Sound and the Fury

BHARAM MEGHDADI

Women in Hedayat’s Fiction

HOMA KATOUZIAN


Satire in Hajji Aqa


FIROUZEH KHAZRAI


Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka and the Logic of Iranian Modernity


NASRIN RAHIMIEH


Narrative Identity in the Works of Hedayat’s and His Contemporaries
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MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI

 

Hedayat and the Experience of Modernity

 

RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO

 

Hedayat, Vegetarianism and Modernity


HUSHANG  PHILSOOF

 


Man and Animal in Hedayat’s Stray Dog


HOMA KATOUZIAN


 

Biography

Homa Katouzian is a social scientist, historian, literary critic and poet. He is The Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St. Antony’s College and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies.

"This collection with its various approaches to the texts, the person and his ‘wondrous world’, his views, independence and interdependencies is a publication most apt to quicken the appetite." - Madeleine Voegeli; Middle Eastern Literatures: incorporating Edebiyat, 13:1, 117-119 (2012).