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A review by parizaad
Die blinde Eule by Sadegh Hedayat
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
"Idle thoughts! Perhaps. Yet they torment me more savagely than any reality could do."
oh, what a work of breathtaking prose—haunting, poetic, and deeply unsettling but wtf was that portrayal of pedophilia and misogyny in the narrative? I wonder if this is how the world appears to the alcoholic, the drug-addicted, the disillusioned.
Maybe I needed to smoke opium to fully grasp the surrealism Hedayat was after. But I won’t ever see his nightmare since I’m one of the unlucky ones—too sober to escape reality.
Reading Hedayat, Kafka, and Manto in the same month feels like a self-inflicted punishment. Heaven know I am a miserable man now.
oh, what a work of breathtaking prose—haunting, poetic, and deeply unsettling but wtf was that portrayal of pedophilia and misogyny in the narrative? I wonder if this is how the world appears to the alcoholic, the drug-addicted, the disillusioned.
Maybe I needed to smoke opium to fully grasp the surrealism Hedayat was after. But I won’t ever see his nightmare since I’m one of the unlucky ones—too sober to escape reality.
Reading Hedayat, Kafka, and Manto in the same month feels like a self-inflicted punishment. Heaven know I am a miserable man now.