Bøger af Sadegh Hedayat

En af de vigtigste og mest kontroversielle iranske romaner fra det 20. århundrede – i en ny oversættelse ved Shadi Angelina Bazeghi.Den blinde ugle er en uafrystelig fortælling om tab og åndeligt forfald, om en ung stofmisbrugers desperation over at miste sin kærlighed. Gennem en række sammenvævede begivenheder, der kredser om de samme mentale billeder og hallucinationer – en gammel mand med en frastødende latter, to magre sorte heste med en tung, tør hoste, og en flaske forgiftet vin – skriver fortælleren som en besat om sin besættelse af en ung, smuk kvinde, skønt det driver ham længere og længere ind i had og voldsfantasier. »Hedayat beskriver vanviddet mere levende end både Kafka og Poe«San Francisco Cronicle »Et ekstraordinært værk«The Times

Boof-e koor (The Blind Owl) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary. We are the offspring of death and death delivers us from the tantalizing, fraudulent attractions of life; it is death that beckons us from the depths of life. If at times we come to a halt, we do so to hear the call of death... Throughout our lives, the finger of death points at us." The narrator addresses his murderous confessions to the shadow on his wall resembling an owl. His confessions do not follow a linear progression of events and often repeat and layer themselves thematically, thus lending to the open-ended nature of interpretation of the story.

"The Stray Dog" (Sag-e Velgard) is a short story by Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat, first published in 1942 along with seven other short stories in the book of the same name.

Se Ghatreh Khoon (Three Drops of Blood) is a collection of 11 short stories by Sadegh Hedayat first published in 1932.

Favayed-e giyahkhori (The Benefits of Vegetarianism) written in 1927 by Iranian modern writer Sadegh Hedayat, is one of the most important and influential works ever written in Persian about animal rights and vegetarianism. It is the more complete edition of Hedayat's older book about animal rights named Men and Animals . Based on the two mentioned books, some vegan parties in Iran tend to consider Sadegh Hedayat as the father of Iran's modern vegetarianism.

Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious.