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“Dark and deep. Full of symbols.”
d0ctrey wrote this review 4 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“mishe goft ye ki az behtarin asare hedayate ......vaghean to ketabhaye hedayat hamishe heivanat naghshe mohemi darand ......ke in barmigarde be zendegie shakhsie khodesh va ...”
daddy.long.legs wrote this review Sunday, November 1 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“master tale of degardation, iranian masterpiece in novel”
haman n wrote this review Thursday, September 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This is the gloomiest book I've ever read in my life. In fact, it apparently made some of its readers suicidal and was banned in Iran for a while. It was published in 1937 in Bombay, where its Iranian author was living at the time, with the note "Not for publication in Iran" attached in case he got into trouble over it. Itwas a big hit in France though, which is understandable in a nation which enjoys using medication as suppositories rather than orally, and is now seen as a significant milestone in the histroy of Iranian literature.
Giles C wrote this review Sunday, August 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
It tells the story of an emotionally neglected, obsessive, depressed, opium-smoking miser, but in a long-winded way. You have to read through his hallucinatory ideas, his compulsive thoughts about how much he hates himself and others, how he views everyone as merely on the way to death, and his ruminations on corpses, decomposition, women, who he views as prostitutes who are corpses in the making and so on. It may have been original when it was first written, and actually it's still unusual for its relentless negativity and nihilism. There's absolutely nothing uplifting about it whatsoever. The nearest I've come to it is some of the hate-laden garbage written on ultra-fascist websites which I land on by accident while googling something different.
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/BlindOwl/blindowl.html”
“Fazaye fogholade Ajibi Dasht In ketab...”
ZafMaR wrote this review Sunday, August 16 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“بهترین کتاب زندگی من همین کتابه ! حدودا 14 ساله بودم که اولین بار خوندمش ... با اینکه بسیار پیچیده بود ولی همان دفعه ی اول به فوق العاده بودن این کتاب پی بردم بعد از اون تقریبا هر چند ماه یکبار حتما باید این کتاب را بخوانم
saman A - madadi wrote this review Sunday, July 12 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
رمانی که به هیچ عنوان خسته کننده نیست و به معنای واقعی کلمه یک شاهکار با معیارهای جهانی است فضا و جوی که خواندن این رمان برای من ایجاد کرد یک فضای آشنا بود چیزی که انگار بارها آن را از نزدیک لمس کردم و با تمام وجود احساس کردم
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“ من هدايت را با بوف کور و بوف کور را با صادق هدايت دوست دارم. بوف کور را نه ميتوان جزو داستان کوتاه قرار داد و نه جز رمانها... بوف کور مکالمه خود صادق هدايت است با درون خود, که حاوي صميمانه ترين و سادترين نفسانيات يک هنرمند شرقيست که ساليان متمادي به اجبار, و براي دوري از آنچه خود امپرياليست ملي مينامد, به آغوش غرب پناه ميبرد تا در آنجا آزادانه و بدون هيچ ساز و بستي به خلق آثار خود بپردازد... بوف کور فرياد انتقام است, فريادي که برآمده از سلطه دوران ديکتاتوري و دوره مشروطيت است. هدايت درسال 1315 براي نوشتن کتاب بوف کور به هندوستان سفر ميکند تا کمتر شاهد هرج و مرج سياسي و ديکتاتوري خفقان آور مملکت خود باشد. در آن زمان امثال حميد و حجازي, در عرصه ادبيات ايران يکه تازي ميکردند. اولي نويسنده داستانهاي کوچه بازاري بوده و دومي به سردبيري روزنامه "ايران امروز" منصوب ميشود تا ظاهرسازيهاي آب و رنگ دار دوران مشروطيت را چاپ کند. امثال جمال زاده نيز جلاي وطن کرده اند و بقيه نيز سکوت را به اعتراض ترجيح داده اند. اين است کارنامه ادبي آن زمان. واقعيتي که در تمام عمر چهل و هشت ساله هدايت بر ايران مسلط بوده است جز فريب, فقر, مسکنت و قلدري چيزي نبوده و شما ميتوانيد اين را در جاي جاي کتاب ببينيد...[زندگي من تمام روز ميان چهار ديوار اتاقم ميگذشت و ميگذرد, سرتاسر زندگيم ميان چهار ديوار گذشته است.... ] [در اينجا هدايت چهار ديوار اتاق را به محيط تنگ سالهاي ديکتاتوري تشبيه ميکند] در چنين محيطي است که هدايت مينويسد و به صورتي فقيرانه و با کمک دوستان خود مجموعه داستانهاي خود را چاپ ميکند. به نوعي ميتوان گفت در اکثر کتابهاي هدايت, شما ميتوانيد ترس از طرد شدن, انزوا و گوشه نشيني, عدم اعتماد به واقعيتهاي فريبنده, غم غربت, انکارحقايق موجود و قنائت به روياها را مشاهده کنيد. بوف کور علاوه بر ارزش هنري, سندي اجتماعي و گواهيست تاريخي , مبتني بر محکوميت حکومت زور و استبداد آن زمان. سندي که هدايت باجسارت وزيرکي تمام آن رابه زيباترين نحوبه قلم وکاغذمیاورد تادر پس واژه هايي گنگ, فريادي ازسر اعتراض برآورده باشد”
OBEYD wrote this review Tuesday, May 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Blind Owl (Bof Kaur) has some mystery behind its main frame work. It’s like some secret agency doing some kind of mischievous activities in your mind while reading it. It makes your mind so much obsessed in the panic of its main protagonist that it creates a strong psychological bonding with him. And you actually start giving reasoning for his eccentric behavior, thoughts and irrationality of his dreams.
Umair Vahidy wrote this review Thursday, November 27 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Do you really have a longing to feel pity for somebody?
Do you want to be miserable because of someone else’s misery?
Do you want to see how the extreme love and extreme hatred merge in a circle?
Do you really want to lose your footing on the spiral of emotional disequilibrium?
Do you want to feel your girlfriend or wife as a hoax?
Then go for it, Sadiq Hidayat has a bizarre world for yourselves. All you need is to dive in it and put yourselves on the verge of emotional suffocation.
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“I used to be a nihilist, and enjoy the works of this nihilist(as some say) iranian writer. Hedayat was a good iranian author, but "The Blind Owl" is known as his masterpiece. Some compair it with "Demian" by Herman Hesse. It has a very melancholic and dark story and ending. I used to enjoy Hedayat's writings, but not anymore.”
Ebrahim Taghavi wrote this review Saturday, October 18 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
