Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat\'s masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century.
The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the Translation of t Widely rega.
Noori\'s new English Translation and his preface are a welcome addition and will no doubt draw the attention of scholars interested in Hedayat\'s works.
In his discussion of the relationship between his Translation and Costello\'s, Noori also draws on Translation theory and sees Costello\'s focus on the fluidity of the text in English as a domestication of Hedayat\'s original.
As Noori indicates, his attempt to preserve the overabundance of dashes gives the reader a more immediate sense of the narrator\'s agitation...
The First sentence flows on in Noori\'s translation, piling sensation upon sensation never allowing us to pause and catch our breath or separate out the images from the sensations. ....
There are indeed marked differences between Costello\'s and Noori\'s translations.
Extensive footnotes (explaining Persian words, phrases, and customs ignored in previous translations) provide deeper understanding of this work for both the causal reader and the serious student of literature.
This 75th anniversary edition, translated by award-winning writer Naveed Noori and published in conjunction with the Hedayat Foundation, aims to change this and is notable for a number of firsts: *The only Translation endorsed by the Sadegh Hedayat Foundation *The First Translation to use the definitive Bombay edition (Hedayat\'s handwritten text) *The only available English Translation by a native Persian and English speaker *The preface includes a detailed textual analysis of the Blind Owl Finally, by largely preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat\'s writing, this edition brings the English reader Into the world of the Hedayat\'s Blind Owl as never before.
Sadly, this work has yet to find its way Into the English pantheon of Classics.
Costello\'s English Translation made it largely accessible.
Lescot\'s French Translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.
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Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization.
On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but with the turning of each page basic facts become obscure and the reader soon realizes this book is much more than a love story.
Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat\'s masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century
