Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel edited by Syed Akhtar Husain and Md. Arshadul Quadri
Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel
Editors: Syed Akhtar Husain and Md. Arshadul Quadri
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- EDITORS: Syed Akhtar Husain and Md. Arshadul Quadri
- FOREWARD: N.N. Vohra
- HB ISBN : 978-93-5687-767-2
- Year : 2023
- Extent : 258
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Revisiting Sadeq Hedayat’s Blind Owl: Writings on a Modern Persian Novel is a commemorative volume of thirteen scholarly articles on the Persian novel Buf-e-Kur (Blind Owl) by Sadeq Hedayat (1903–51). Scholars of Persian studies have long endeavoured to bring this complex novel, written in a unique form and structure, into a simple narrative for afficionados of modern Persian fiction. Thus, the present volume is a ‘literary manifesto’, presenting perspectives on the novel and the writer from historical, cultural, psychoanalytical, cinematic, artistic, translational, and poetic viewpoints. Drawing upon continued Indo-Iranian relations when Burzoe translated the Panchatantra into Pahlavi in 570 ad to when Hedayat wrote his masterpiece during his India sojourn in 1937, the chapters presented here explore a number of topics: from critiques of translations of the novel into three Indian languages (Bengali, Hindi, and Malayalam) to discussions regarding the compatibility of the novel with cinema and the interface of the novel with Hedayat’s sketches and paintings. The volume also offers an analogical study of the thought processes of Ghalib and Hedayat, demonstrating
the resonance between great minds.
The Editors
Syed Akhtar Husain is Professor at the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and President of the Institute of Indo-Persian Studies. He has published articles in leading journals of Persian studies in India and abroad and has two books to his credit. Recently, he co-edited a volume titled Essays on the Arabian Nights.
Md. Arshadul Quadri is Assistant Professor at the Department of Persian, University of Lucknow. He is also currently Vice-President of the Institute of Indo-Persian Studies. His areas of interest include Indo-Persian literature, modern Persian literature and translations from Persian into English and vice versa. He is the author of Spectrum of Persian Literature: A Collection of Articles on Persian and Indo Persian Literature.