The Blind Owl
A painter who decorates pen cases with one scene over and over, a cypress, an old man squatting across a stream, a girl in black holding out a morning glory to him, finds that same tableau through an airhole that opens in his own wall, and some nights later a woman with those eyes comes to his door and lies down on his bed. The second half tells the material again in an older city under plague, where the narrator lies wrapped in a blanket, married to a cousin who will not touch him and watched by an odds-and-ends man whose laugh he keeps recognizing. Written in Bombay and run off in fifty mimeographed copies because it could not be printed in Reza Shah's Iran, it is the founding work of Persian modernist fiction.
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- influenced by ↑ The Metamorphosis
- influenced by ↑ The Tell-Tale Heart
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