Sadegh Hedayat

Sadegh (or Sadeq ) Hedayat (Persian صادق هدایت; born February 17, 1903 in Tehran, † April 9, 1951 in Paris) was an Iranian writer.

Life

Sadeq Hedayat was born as the son of a prestigious aristocratic family. His great-grandfather, Mirza Reza Qoli Khan Hedayat (1800-1871), was a renowned historian, poet and tutor to the princes of the 19th century in Iran. From 1914 Sadeq attended high school "Dar -ol Fonun " in Tehran. However, he had to leave this after only one year due to an eye disease. He then attended the French mission school in St. Louis in Tehran and learned the French language and literature know. In 1925, he traveled for a period of study with a group of students to Belgium, but always complained because of the weather and his study problems. Later Hedayat moved to France. He changed several times in a short time both the subject and the study. Depressed and plagued by self-doubt, he undertook in 1929 a suicide attempt in the Marne river. However, he was rescued by passers-by who were there in a boat on the road. Without graduating, he returned to Iran and began to work with the Iranian People's Bank as a clerk in the same year. During this time, he and Bozorg Alavi, Masud Farzad and Mojtaba Minavi the group Rab'eh ( quad).

He translated works of Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Schnitzler, Jean -Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka and the musicologist Gaston Sarreau. He also wrote two historical dramas, several short stories, a play and a travelogue; He also made ​​various translations from the Middle Persian into New Persian. His masterpiece, the short novel " Blind Owl", he wrote in the years 1936 /37. It begins with the sentence: " In life there are wounds which, like the leprosy, slowly, who live in the solitude of the soul. " This book tells of strange feelings and situations of people who are even more peculiar. They all give the reader a kind of trepidation abysmal experience. This novel is one of the most important works of modern Persian language. Hedayat committed suicide on April 8, 1951 in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

Works

  • Roman literature:
  • Buried alive (8 Short stories ), 1930
  • Mongols shadows, 1931
  • Three drops of blood, 1932
  • Twilight, 1933
  • Caravan Islam - The Islamic Mission in Europe; A satire, 1933/34,
  • Madame Alavie -e ( 7 Short Stories )
  • Mister Wau Wau
  • The Blind Owl, 1937
  • The Wandering Dog, 1942
  • Gabby, 1944
  • The Elixir of Life
  • Haji Aqa, 1945
  • Pearl Cannon, 1947
  • Dramas (1930-1946):
  • Parvin, daughter of Sassan
  • Mazi - yar ( play )
  • The fable of creation
  • Itinerary:
  • Isfahan, half the world
  • On the wet path, 1935 (not printed )
  • Miscellany:
  • Khayyam quatrains, 1923
  • Humans and animals, 1924
  • Death, 1926
  • The utilities of the vegetarian lifestyle, 1957
  • A meaningful story, 1932
  • Khayyam's melodies, 1934
  • Tchaikovsky, 1940
  • About Assadis Persian Dictionary, 1940
  • New literary method of investigation, 1940
  • New Trend in the Persian poetry
  • Review of the translation of Gogol into Persian ( Inspector General, Nikolai Gogol ), 1944
  • Some remarks on Wis and Ramin, 1945

Autobiographical about Sadegh Hedayat

  • M. F. Farzaneh: Rencontres avec Sadegh Hedayat. Le Parcours d'une initiation. José Corti. Paris 1993
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