He still towers over modern Persian fiction. ![]() ![]() He emerged as an embodiment of the most sophisticated – but also the least patient and most radical – social and cultural Europeanism of his time. His personality and psychological moods, his intellectual flare, his cultural values, his social rebelliousness towards virtually every established order in society including that of the opposition, and, ultimately, his sense of alienation from existence itself, placed him in a unique position among modern Iranian intellectuals. Yet both Hedayat’s life and his death came to symbolize much more than leading writers would normally claim. Thus, he was not only a great writer, but also the founder of modernism in Persian fiction. But his most original contribution was the use of modernist, more often surrealist, techniques in Persian fiction. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran. ![]() Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Most of the contributors are leading scholars of Iranian studies and/or comparative literature. This is a new, comprehensive, critical study of Sadeq Hedayat’s life and work based on the contributions to the international conference held in his centenary year at the University of Oxford.
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