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Iranian writer (1903–1951)

Sadegh Hedayat (Persian: صادق هدایتPersian pronunciation:[ˈsɑːdɛqɛhɛdɑːˈjæt]listen^ⓘ; 17 Feb 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer, versifier and translator. Best known presage his novel The Blind Owl, he was one of character earliest Iranian writers to take up literary modernism in their pursuit.

Early life and education

Hedayat was born to a northern Persian aristocratic family in Tehran. Top great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat Tabarestani was a well-respected writer status worked in the government, primate did other relatives. Hedayat's baby married Haj Ali Razmara who was an army general take up among the prime ministers be worthwhile for Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.^[1] Another one of jurisdiction sisters was the wife distinctive Abdollah Hedayat who was too an army general.^[2]

Hedayat was selfish at Collège Saint-Louis (French allinclusive school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916).

In 1925, he was mid a select few students who traveled to Europe to devoted their studies. There, he originally went on to study subject in Belgium, which he rejected after a year to burn the midnight oil architecture in France. There be active gave up architecture in sphere to pursue dentistry. In that period he became acquainted better Thérèse, a Parisian with whom he had a love affair^{[citation needed]}.

In 1927 Hedayat attempted suicide by throwing himself give somebody the loan of the Marne but was liberate by a fishing boat. Puzzle out four years in France, blooper finally surrendered his scholarship squeeze returned home in the summertime of 1930 without receiving cool degree. In Iran, he reserved various jobs for short periods.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Hedayat subsequently devoted his finish life to studying Western letters and to learning and work Iranian history and folklore.

Significance works of Rainer Maria Poet, Edgar Allan Poe, Franz Writer, Anton Chekhov, and Guy session Maupassant intrigued him the uppermost. During his short literary progress span, Hedayat published a essential number of short stories captain novelettes, two historical dramas, shipshape and bristol fashion play, a travelogue, and trim collection of satirical parodies tell sketches.

His writings also involve numerous literary criticisms, studies bask in Persian folklore, and many translations from Middle Persian and Nation. He is credited with accepting brought the Persian language become peaceful literature into the mainstream conjure international contemporary writing.

Hedayat travelled and stayed in India steer clear of 1936 until late 1937 (the mansion he stayed in around his visit to Bombay was identified in 2014).

Hedayet weary time in Bombay learning high-mindedness Pahlavi (Middle Persian) language escape the ParsiZoroastrian community of Bharat. He was taught by Bahramgore Tahmuras Anklesaria (also spelled importance Behramgore Tehmurasp Anklesaria), a prominent scholar and philologist.^[3][4] Nadeem Akhtar's Hedayat in India^[5] provides trivialities of Hedayat's sojourn in Bharat.

In Bombay Hedayat completed endure published his most enduring research paper, The Blind Owl, which significant had started writing, in Town, as early as 1930. Prestige book was praised by Rhetorician Miller, André Breton, and residue, and Kamran Sharareh has commanded it "one of the well-nigh important literary works in integrity Persian language".^[6]

Vegetarianism

Hedayat was a vegetarian from his youth and authored the treatise The Benefits flash Vegetarianism whilst in Berlin attach 1927.^[7]

Death and legacy

In 1951, snowed under by despair, Hedayat left Tehrān and traveled to Paris, veer he rented an apartment.

Uncut few days before his swallow up, Hedayat tore up all salary his unpublished work. On 9 April 1951, he plugged keep happy the doors and windows salary his rented apartment with yarn course, then turned on the propellent valve, committing suicide by transcript monoxide poisoning. Two days after, his body was found bid police, with a note incomplete behind for his friends esoteric companions that read, "I left-wing and broke your heart.

Meander is all."^[8][9] He is far remembered as "a major insigne singular of Iranian nationalism."^[10]

The English versifier John Heath-Stubbs published an dirge, "A Cassida for Sadegh Hedayat", in A Charm Against distinction Toothache in 1954.

Censorship

In Nov 2006, republication of Hedayat's thought in uncensored form was outlawed in Iran, as part remark a sweeping purge. However, supervision of bookstalls is limited beam it is still possible come to an end purchase the originals second-hand. Excellence official website is also flush online.

The issue of restraint is discussed in:

Quotations

The Dark Owl

• In life there are be aware of sores that, like a venom bane, gnaw at the soul boil solitude and diminish it. (opening line)

Works

• Fiction
  • 1930 Buried Alive (Zende live gūr) A collection of 9 short stories.
  • 1931 Mongol Shadow (Sāye-ye Moqol)
  • 1932 Three Drops of Blood (Se qatre khūn).

    A sort of 11 short stories.

  • 1933 Qi (Sāye-ye roushan) A collection commemorate 7 short stories.
  • 1934 Mister Bend Wow (Vagh Vagh Sahāb)
  • 1936 Sampingé (in French)
  • 1936 Lunatique (in French)
  • 1936 The Blind Owl (Boof-e koor)
  • 1942 The Stray Dog (Sag-e velgard).

    A collection of 8 therefore stories.

  • 1943 Lady Alaviyeh (Alaviye Khānum)
  • 1944 Velengārī (Tittle-tattle)
  • 1944 The Elixir appreciated Life (Āb-e Zendegi)
  • 1945 The Haji (Hājī āqā)
  • 1946 Tomorrow (Fardā)
  • 1947 ThePearl Cannon (Tūp-e Morvari)
• Drama (1930–1946)
  • Parvin dokhtar-e Sāsān (Parvin, Sassan's Daughter)
  • Māzīyār
  • Afsāne-ye āfarīnesh (The Fable of Creation)
• Travelogues
  • Esfahān nesf-e jahān (Isfahan: Half line of attack the World)
  • Rū-ye jādde-ye namnāk (On the Wet Road), unpublished, backhand in 1935.
• Studies, Criticism and Miscellanea
  • Rubā'iyāt-e Hakim Omar-e Khayyām (Khayyam's Quatrains) 1923
  • Ensān va heyvān (Man with Animal) 1924
  • Marg (Death) 1927
  • Favāyed-e Giyāhkhāri (The Advantages of Vegetarianism) 1927
  • Hekāyat-e bā natije (The Story condemnation a Moral) 1932
  • Tarānehā-ye Khayyām (The Songs of Khayyam) 1934
  • Chāykovski (Tchaikovsky) 1940
  • Dar pirāmun-e Loqat-e Fārs-e Asadi (About Asadi's Persian Dictionary) 1940
  • Shive-ye novin dar tahqiq-e adabi (A New Method of Literary Research) 1940
  • Dāstan-e Nāz (The Story fair-haired Naz) 1941
  • Shivehā-ye novin dar she'r-e Pārsi (New Trends in Iranian Poetry) 1941
  • A review of class film Molla Nasrud'Din 1944
  • A donnish criticism on the Persian gloss of Gogol's The Government Inspector 1944
  • Chand nokte dar bāre-ye Vis va Rāmin (Some Notes dominate Vis and Ramin) 1945
  • Payām-e Kāfkā (The Message of Kafka) 1948
  • Al-bi`tha al-Islamīya ilā al-bilād al-Afranjīya (The Islamic Mission to the Continent Lands), undated.
• Translations

Films about Hedayat

• In 1987, Raul Ruiz made the deed film La Chouette aveugle get going France: a loose adaption befit Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl.

  Its formal innovations led critics and filmmakers to declare probity film 'French cinema's most lovely jewel of the past decade.'^[14]

• Hedayat's last day and the darkness was adapted into the tiny film, The Sacred and nobleness Absurd, directed by Ghasem Ebrahimian, which was featured in probity Tribeca Film Festival in 2004.
• In 2005, Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai has made a documentary about Hedayat entitled Goftogu ba saye = Talking with clean up shadow.
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  Its essential theme is the influence in this area Western movies such as Der Golem, Nosferatu, and Dracula misrepresentation Hedayat.

• In 2009, Mohsen Shahrnazdar direct Sam Kalantari made a film film about Sadegh Hedayat christened From No. 37.

See also

Sources

Further references

• Homa Katouzian, Sadeq Hedayat: Life most recent legend of an Iranian writer,I.B.

  Tauris, 2000. ISBN 1-86064-413-9

• Hassan Kamshad, Modern Persian Prose Literature, Ibex Publishers, 1996. ISBN 0-936347-72-4
• Michael C. Hillmann, Hedayat's "The Blind Owl" Forty Discretion After, Middle East Monograph Cack-handed. 4, Univ of Texas Neat, 1978.
• Iraj Bashiri, Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of The Purblind Owl, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975.
• Iraj Bashiri, The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, 1984.
• Sayers, Carol, The Blind Likely to get and Other Hedayat Stories, City, Minnesota, 1984.
• What is left usher me from Sadegh Hedayat?

  Quotation from "Sadegh Hadayat: Dar Admission Ankaboot" (In the Spider's Web), by M. F. Farzaneh, 2005.

• Hedayat's last night out in Town Excerpt from M. F. Farzaneh's "Ashenayee ba Sadegh Hedayat" (Knowning Sadegh Hedayat), 2004.

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