The Blind Owl

For other uses, see Blind Owl (disambiguation).

The Blind Owl
AuthorSadegh Hedayat
Original titleبوف کور
LanguagePersian
GenreGothic
Published1315 SH (1936 or 1937)
Preceded byThe Songs of Khayyam 
Followed byThe Stray Dog 

The Blind Owl (Persian: بوف کور, Būf-e Kūr listenⓘ) is a Persian novella by Sadegh Hedayat that is about an isolated, unnamed narrator who recounts his obsessive love for an enigmatic woman and his gradual descent into psychological fragmentation, conveyed through a dark, hallucinatory narrative in which reality, memory, and nightmare become indistinguishable. It was published in 1315 SH (1936 or 1937) and is considered to be Hedayat's magnum opus.

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