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The Blind Owl (Authorized By The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translat...
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- ISBN
- 9789186131449
- Book Title
- Blind Owl
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Wisehouse
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Literary Collections
- Topic
- Middle Eastern
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 108 Pages
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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. 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. Although the Blind Owl has been compared to the works of the Kafka, Rilke and Poe, this work defies categorization. Lescot's French translation made the Blind Owl world-famous, while D.P. Costello's English translation made it largely accessible. Sadly, this work has yet to find its way into the English pantheon of Classics. 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. 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. "....There are indeed marked differences between Costello's and Noori's translations. 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. 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. 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. The close textual and comparative analysis of the type Noori offers marks a new and long-overdue critical approach to the translation of the most celebrated work of modern Persian prose." -Professor Nasrin Rahimieh in Middle Eastern Literatures
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Publisher
Wisehouse
ISBN-10
9186131443
ISBN-13
9789186131449
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168590666
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blind Owl
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Middle Eastern
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Literary Collections
Number of Pages
108 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
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Fic
Dewey Edition
23
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