A review by craiglister
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

4.0

This story about love, madness, loss, spiritual degradation, and fear. This is a short tale and my first ever Iranian novella I have read and I loved it. It's well written and I find the main character to be written in a way that you can't help on some level relating to him and his plight. Despite being wrong in his approach to his relationship or lack thereof with her. I can see why this is such an important work in modern Iranian literature. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this work, and I found the translation to be great.