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Ṣādiq Hidāyat (1903–1951)

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Critics regard Sadiq Hidayat as one of the outstanding writers of the twentieth century. Known primarily for his short stories, he was influenced by Poe and Kafka. His stories plumb the depth of human motivation and seek out the meaning of life. Many critics regard his novel The Blind Owl (1937) as visa mer the masterpiece of all Persian fiction. His work evidences a deep pessimism, which eventually led him to suicide. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Vedertaget namn
Hidāyat, Ṣādiq
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
صادق هدایت
Andra namn
صادق هدایت
Hedayat, Sadegh
Födelsedag
1903-02-17
Avled
1951-04-04
Begravningsplats
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France
Kön
male
Nationalitet
Perzië
Land (för karta)
Iran
Dödsort
Parijs, Frankrijk
Dödsorsak
suicide
Bostadsorter
Tehran, Iran (birth)
Paris, France
Utbildning
Dar ol-Fonoon
Kort biografi
Hedayat subsequently devoted his whole life to studying Western literature and to learning and investigating Iranian history and folklore. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka intrigued him the most. During his short literary life span, Hedayat published a substantial number of short stories and novelettes, two historical dramas, a play, a travelogue, and a collection of satirical parodies and sketches. His writings also include numerous literary criticisms, studies in Persian folklore, and many translations from Middle Persian and French. He is credited with having brought Persian language and literature into the mainstream of international contemporary writing. There is no doubt that Hedayat was the most modern of all modern writers in Iran. Yet, for Hedayat, modernity was not just a question of scientific rationality or a pure imitation of European values.In his later years, feeling the socio-political problems of the time, Hedayat started attacking the two major causes of Iran’s decimation, the monarchy and the clergy, and through his stories he tried to impute the deafness and blindness of the nation to the abuses of these two major powers. Feeling alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, Hedayat’s last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation and a sense of doom experienced only by those subjected to discrimination and repression.

Hedayat's most enduring work is the short novel The Blind Owl of 1937. It has been called "one of the most important literary works in the Persian language"
He ended his life by gassing himself and is buried in the Père Lachaise.

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The Blind Owl i The Chapel of the Abyss (juli 2018)

Recensioner

Interesting. A bloody, opium fever dream of a book about a man that murders his wife whom he only calls “the bitch.” Pretty unpleasant stuff. Not my cup of tea.
 
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BookyMaven | 39 andra recensioner | Feb 8, 2024 |
This is a fever-dream of a dark, compelling novel, and a reading experience that sucks one in until each moment is its own small psychological impact. A novel that was banned in Hedayat's home country of Iran, the work mounts gorgeous prose, a poetic sensibility, and a sometimes-style of repetition that makes one feel as if they're being sucked into a whirlpool of a story. It's a novel to be sucked into and experience...and perhaps to be read more than once if the darkness isn't too much.

Recommended.… (mer)
½
 
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whitewavedarling | 39 andra recensioner | Jan 21, 2024 |
I feel bad for rating this book only 3 stars. I feel it's because I'm too stupid for it or maybe just that I'm in the wrong sort of mood to enjoy it. The first half-ish of the book was good but when it changes perspective and you have to read the guy calling his wife "the bitch" over and over it gets really grating. Like I found the constant stuff about him being literally dead and everyone else being terrible rabble very repetitive, overwrought and not even vaguely interesting. At the same time I really liked the repetitive symbols like the geometric houses and stub end of cucumber taste because they enhanced the dream-like sense which the best parts of the novel contain, the sense of endless repetition and falling, an eternal hell. It's hard to fit the two parts of the novel together and see the connections while the repetitive symbols are pretty intriguing and create interesting ideas and impressions in my head. The best part is the part around the halfwayish point where he goes and buries the cut up body in the strange place. I just felt it went on too long without really saying much more. I liked the open endedness and suggestions of something more but without ever explaining it. I feel it'd be super interesting to interpret if I put the effort in to like take notes, cross reference etc which would also cut out the stuff I don't like so much heh. I don't know I realise I probably missed a lot and wasn't reading it well enough or whatever… (mer)
 
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tombomp | 39 andra recensioner | Oct 31, 2023 |
You won't find a darker novel than this, and scarcely one better written. It's strange and fascinating to realize that this work boasts best modern classic status in Iranian literature, despite having initially been suppressed there as a potential suicide threat to teenagers. It's encouraging to me that a modern culture exists in which such a gruesomely powerful brief for Death could finally be not only legitimized, but uniquely celebrated, for its literary merit.
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Verk
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Även av
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Medlemmar
1,540
Popularitet
#16,722
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
46
ISBN
108
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