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Indlæser... Blind Owl (Oneworld Modern Classics) (original 1937; udgave 2008)af Ṣādiq Hidāyat
Work InformationBlind Owl af Sadegh Hedayat (1937)
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You won't find a darker novel than this, and scarcely one better written. It's strange and fascinating to realize that this work boasts best modern classic status in Iranian literature, despite having initially been suppressed there as a potential suicide threat to teenagers. It's encouraging to me that a modern culture exists in which such a gruesomely powerful brief for Death could finally be not only legitimized, but uniquely celebrated, for its literary merit. (  )1   Cr00 | Apr 1, 2023 |  Een boek als een Perzische miniatuur. Iets met een jong meisje, een oude man, een lotusbloem en een rivier. Alleen: de lotus verwelkt, het meisje sterft, de rivier droogt uit, de oude man verschrompelt. De wereld bekeken door de ogen van een depressieveling. Alle handelen is ijdel, niets heeft zin, we draaien in een eindeloze, betekenisloze rondedans. Niet verwonderlijk dat er hier en daar gewaarschuwd wordt dat lectuur van dit boek tot zelfmoord kan leiden. Misschien is dat zo voor wie zich al op het neergaande pad bevindt, of voor wie op de rand staat en maar een klein duwtje nodig heeft. Voor wie ie geen gevaar loopt, of voor wie het duister achter zich gelaten heeft, is er weinig gevaar. Het verhaal is al te zeer een - weliswaar donker - sprookje uit 1001 nacht. Voor zover de hoofdpersoon al tot leven komt, heb je de neiging om hem een schop onder zijn kont te geven en te roepen 'doe iets, man!' Maar dat is nu net depressie. (  ) brver | Jul 13, 2022 | Man kann nicht davon lassen, aber richtig verstehen, tat ich es auch nicht. Das Nachwort war hilfreich. Wer gerne mehr über nahezu zeitgenössische Literatur des Irans lernen möchte, ist hier gut aufgehoben. (  ) iffland | Mar 19, 2022 | A real life horror story of a man addicted to opium and wine who writes to his shadow and veers around illusory reality with ugly, repetitive and boring images of a butcher, a snake trial, and murder, dismemberment, suffering, and death. The Owl seemed to understand his writings. (  ) m.belljackson | Feb 25, 2022 | I don’t quite know what to make of The Blind Owl by Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat. Although very short it was a difficult and dark read. The story is of a lonely pen case illustrator and his decent into madness through his use of opium, his obsession with death and decay, and his obvious sexual frustration. As he hallucinates we enter into his dream sequence about a woman who he sees and then can’t find however much he searches. Later she shows up on his doorstep, appears to die in his bed upon which he dismembers her body and buries her in the ancient city of Rey. The second part of the book reveals more about the narrator. He is ill, deranged, and taking opium. He is an invalid being looked after by an old woman and his wife, whom he calls “the bitch” and who he imagines is sleeping with every man she meets. It isn’t pleasant being given access to this man’s fevered mind. With no clear plot or obvious point to make, I guess I would label The Blind Owl as a bleak psychological portrait that is meant to challenge the reader to reach some element of self-knowledge but it was entirely too opaque for me. (  ) DeltaQueen50 | Oct 11, 2021 |
 A tale of one man’s isolation, the novel contains a maze of symbols, recurring images, social commentary, allusions to opium-induced states, contemplations of the human condition, interjections on art, and references to literary and religious texts—all of which have, for decades, made it fertile ground for critical interpretation. HæderspriserNotable Lists
"Written by one of the greatest Iranian writers of the twentieth century, Blind Owl tells a three-part story of a pen-case painter, an isolated narrator with a fragile relationship with time and reality. In part one, he relates his own story in the first person, in a string of hazy, dreamlike recollections fueled by opium and alcohol. He spends time painting the covers of pen cases only to paint the exact same scene: an old man wearing a cape and turban sitting under a cypress tree, separated by a small stream from a beautiful woman in black who is bending down to offer him a waterlily. The novel transitions to a one-page part two where reader find the narrator covered in blood and waiting for the police to arrest him. Part three gives readers a glimpse into the grim realities that unlock the mysteries of the first part. Influenced by European writers like Kafka and de Maupassant, Hedayat also reveals a strong affinity with Dostoevsky. The protagonist of Blind Owl suffers from the brain fever characteristic of many of Dostoevsky's heroes such as Crime and Punishment's Raskolnikov. Both characters are also isolated in a tomb-like room, surrounded by deafening echoes of disturbed thoughts. Both are guilty of a horrible crime and paranoid of being arrested by the police at any moment. But whereas Raskolnikov has intellectually convinced himself that he must commit the crime for the greater good, the pen-case painter acts on instinct and seems oddly unaware of what he has done"-- No library descriptions found. |
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