Sadeq Hedayat - O Mocho Cego

One of the great cult authors of the 20th century, compared to Kafka or Sartre.

The Blind Owl is an uncategorizable text. A powerful novella that follows the immersion of a human being into madness. Predominantly, it is a love story involving a trio: a boy, an older man, and a beautiful young woman. This love story unfolds through visions and nightmares that impose themselves on the eyes of the narrator and the reader. From the depths of the subconscious, a ritual of destruction is constructed, as a meaning is woven for the images and the reader and narrator complete a puzzle of congruence.

Between existentialism and a surrealism of clear psychological influence, this story is imbued with an acute and claustrophobic sense of panic and hallucination that are infinitely contemporary.

In modern Iran and the Islamic world, this short novel tops several lists of banned works. Official speeches of disapproval have attributed a "curse" to it: whoever reads this book commits suicide.