Sadeq Hedayat: the life and legend of an Iranian writer

Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. Born in 1903, he lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, The Blind Owl has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attentio...

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1. Verfasser: Katouzian, Homa 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London I.B. Tauris 2021
Ausgabe:Second edition
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Zusammenfassung:Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. Born in 1903, he lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, The Blind Owl has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attention of Western critics. But Hedayat's impact on the development of modern fiction and on the lives of generations of Iranian intellectuals derives also from his other works and from what was a unique approach to life and art in a rapidly changing society. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of those ideas that have set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success.
Beschreibung:Previous edition: 1991
This second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect on recent debates and scholarship on Sadeq Hadeyat
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten)
ISBN:9780755642168
9780755642144
DOI:10.5040/9780755642168

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