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Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of The Blind Owl. By Iraj Bashiri. Minneapolis: Manor House, 1974. 221 pp.

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Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of The Blind Owl. By Iraj Bashiri. Minneapolis: Manor House, 1974. 221 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Michael Beard
Michael Beard*
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American University in Cairo
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Iranian Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , Winter 1976 , pp. 80 - 84
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1976

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Notes

1. Modern Persian Prose Literature. Cambridge, 1966, p. 180.Google Scholar Quoted with approval by Bashiri on page 20, note 33.

2. Saturday Review, December 27, 1958, p. 24. This appears to be the source of Bashiri's remark on page 21, quoted below.

3. Quotations from the text are taken from the twelfth (paperback) printing of Būf-i Kūr (Tehran, 1347)Google Scholar, and quotations from Costello's translation are from 1969 reprint of the Grove Press paperback edition of The Blind Owl (New York, 1969).Google Scholar

4. Hedayat, Sadegh La Chouette Aveugle. Traduit du Persan par Roger Lescot, Paris, 1953, p. 191.Google Scholar