Sadeq Hedayat

Homa Katouzian is a social scientist, historian, literary critic and poet. He is The Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St. Antony’s College and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies.

• 1. Introduction: The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat Homa Katouzian 2. Sadeq Hedayat’s Centenary: Report of Events in Tehran, and Personal Recollections Jahangir Hedayat 3. Sadeq Hedayat and the Classics: The Case of the Blind Owl Marta Simidchieva 4. The Blind Owl: Present in the Past or the Story of a Dream Houra Yavari 5. Influence as Debt: The Blind Owl in the Literary Marketplace Michael Beard 6. The Blind Owl and the Sound and the Fury Bharam Meghdadi 7. Women in Hedayat’s Fiction Homa Katouzian 8. Satire in Hajji Aqa Firouzeh Khazrai 9. Narrative Identity in the Works of Hedayat and his Contemporaries Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 10. Hedayat’s Translations of Kafka and the Logic of Iranian Modernity Nasrin Rahimieh 11. Hedayat and the Experience of Modernity Ramin Jahanbegloo 12. Hedayat, Vegetarianism and Modernity Hushang Philsooph 13. Man and Animal in Hedayat’s Stray Dog Homa Katouzian

"This collection with its various approaches to the texts, the person and his ‘wondrous world’, his views, independence and interdependencies is a publication most apt to quicken the appetite." - Madeleine Voegeli; Middle Eastern Literatures: incorporating Edebiyat, 13:1, 117-119 (2012).