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The GR description begins Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. This must have been what attracted me to this novel. It surely wasn't the novel itself which was pretty awful for this reader. It is short, its one redeeming feature.
Told in the first person throughout, the unnamed narrator has fantastical dreams and (probably) apparitions. I say probably because I think what happens with these apparition ...more
Told in the first person throughout, the unnamed narrator has fantastical dreams and (probably) apparitions. I say probably because I think what happens with these apparition ...more
Briefly and superficially, this is an account of the opium-influenced hallucinations and/or experiences of a sick man in mid-20th-century Iran.
I admired the writing here, and I particularly appreciated the circularity of the repetitions and the way that brought out the narrator's obsessive rumination.
I hated the misogyny, which reminded me of incel culture, which I think is a horribly destructive thing for individuals and societies. This book made me feel it was not a new thing but common to som ...more
I admired the writing here, and I particularly appreciated the circularity of the repetitions and the way that brought out the narrator's obsessive rumination.
I hated the misogyny, which reminded me of incel culture, which I think is a horribly destructive thing for individuals and societies. This book made me feel it was not a new thing but common to som ...more
Jan 17, 2016
Maia
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i can't remember how far i got but i didn't finish - had to return to library - had read it was a lost masterpiece, actually lots of waffling about being on drugs and feeling knocked out and hallucinating...
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