Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #764497 in Books
• Published on: 1989-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Persian Haunted Tale
This is a strange, affecting, poetic book. The author killed himself after he wrote it, so it reeks of death worship, but there are moments of solid poetic beauty in the text. The Blind Owl is unlike anything else you will ever read, and defies linear interpretation. Existential Persian magic fatalism; interesting stuff all round.

quite remarkable
This is how H P Lovecraft would have liked to have written, just as mad but with a poetry and flow that Lovecraft tended to lack. It's very short which makes it certainly a worthwhile read even if it would not normally be your sort of thing at all.

Blind Truth.
An extremely interesting book. Given Hedayat's suicide after it, it gains an added poignancy when being read, but this ultimately shouldn't overshadow the dense, mercurial, poetic, slippery - and indeed sometimes satiric - prose. Probably unlike anything else you will ever read.