![]() ![]() ![]() Later he's visited by a mysterious female figure, which he thinks of an angel, who dies on his bed. When he goes to fetch his guest a bottle of wine, he finds the image of his stock drawing relived outside of his window. It starts in the modern day, when a Reclusive Artist who draws image of a girl dancing for an old man who's sitting under a pine tree on stuff for a living, is suddenly greeted by his uncle who's coming back from India. In fact, this novella was written two years after Persia, as per Nazi Germany's suggestion, changed its international name to what Iranic people referred to their country, which means Land of Aryans. This book was written during rise of the Nazi ideology and anti-Semiticism (although Iranians hated the other Semitic group, Arabs who destroyed their immaculate culture with Islam) by Iranian elite. Written in Mumbay, it infuses Indian and Iranian mythus and icons, and is generally regarded as an homage to Pre-Islamic Iran (like most of Hedayat's books). Conceived as a personal tale for Hedayat's social circle, it became on of the most appraised literature of 20th century Iran. The Blind Owl (Buf-e Kur) is a Persian novella written in 1937 by Iranian elite, Sadeq Hedayat. ![]() There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker. ![]()
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