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It’s the 120th birthday of Sadegh Hedayat, the genius whose 1936 masterpiece, THE BLIND OWL, is the definitive work of Persian literary modernism. At @The_Rumpus, you can celebrate by reading @PKhakpour’s brilliant introduction to our 2010 edition. Link: https://t.co/EpOMneGi7B https://t.co/gOJ5d2vmpu
cultural historian of the Middle East
Each piece of the sculpture represents a sentence from the first page of Sadegh Hedayat’s iconic novel The Blind Owl. Over months, she carefully cut out Persian letters from copper, the edges cutting her fingers as she worked. The pain as became part of her creative process. https://t.co/2qNhlSPu7M