Sadeq Hedayat
Subtitle: his work and his wondrous world
By: edited by Homa Katouzian.
Contributors: Katouzian, Homa.
Series: Iranian studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415434034; 9780203939963
Subjects: Hidāyat, Ṣādiq, -- 1903-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Hidāyat, Ṣādiq, -- 1903-1951
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: the wondrous world of Sadeq Hedayat / Homa Katouzian; title: 2. Sadeq Hedayat's Centenary: report of events in Tehran, and personal recollections / Jahangir Hedayat; title: 3. Sadeq Hedayat and the classics: the case of the Blind owl  / Marta Simidchieva; title: 4. The Blind owl: present in the past or the story of a dream / Houra Yavari; title: 5. Influence as debt: The Blind Owl in the literary marketplace / Michael Beard; title: 6. The Blind owl and the Sound and the fury / Bahram Meghdadi; title: 7. Women in Hedayat's Fiction / Homa Katouzian; title: 8. Satire in Hajji Aqa / Firouzeh Khazrai; title: 9. Narrative identity in the works of Hedayat's and his contemporaries / Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi; title: 10. Hedayat's translations of Kafka and the logic of Iranian modernity / Nasrin Rahimieh; title: 11. Hedayat and the experience of modernity  / Ramin Jahanbegloo; title: 12. Hedayat, vegetarianism and modernity / Hushang Philosoph; title: 13. Man and animal in Hedayat's Stray Dog / Homa Katouzian.