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Sadegh Hedayat

Born

in Tehran, Sublime State of Persia

February 17, 1903

Died

April 09, 1951

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Rilke, Poe, Kafka, Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Dostoyevsky ...more

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Among Iranian writers who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.

هدایت از پیشگامان داستان‌نویسی نوین ایران و از روشنفکران برجسته ایرانی بود. حجم آثار و مقالات نوشته شده درباره نوشته‌ها، نوع زندگی و خودکشی صادق هدایت بیانگر تأثیر ژرف او بر جریان روشنفکری ایران است. هرچند شهرت عام هدایت نویسندگی است، آثاری از نویسندگان بزرگ را نیز ترجمه کرده‌است. صادق هدایت در ۱۹ فروردین سال ۱۳۳۰ در پاریس خودکشی کرد. آرامگاه وی در گورستان پرلاشز پاریس واقع است

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Sadegh Hedayat’s books

Average rating: 3.89 · 28,498 ratings · 3,640 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Blind Owl 3.94 avg rating — 37,284 ratings — published 1937 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'eau de jouvence et autres recits by Sadegh Hedayat, Maxime-Féri Farzaneh, Frédéric Farzaneh 3.55 avg rating — 332 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Der Feueranbeter und andere Erzählungen by Sadegh Hedayat, Touradj Rahnema (Editor), Susan Gaviri (Translator) 3.39 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	سه قطره خون 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patient Stone by Sadegh Hedayat, صادق هدایت, Mohammad Batmanglij 3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blind Owl: Authorized by The Sadegh Hedayat Foundation - First Translation into English Based on the Bombay Edition by Sadegh Hedayat, Naveed Noori (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seçme Eserler by Sadegh Hedayat, Mehmet Kanar (Translator), صادق هدایت 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anthology (Modern Persian Literature Series, 2) by Sadegh Hedayat, Ehsan Yarshater (Editor), صادق هدایت 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1979	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il randagio e altri racconti by Sadegh Hedayat, Anna Vanzan (Translator), صادق هدایت 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tři kapky krve: Výbor z povídek by Sadegh Hedayat, Věra Kubíčková (Translator), صادق هدایت really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Sadegh Hedayat (?)

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور

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“در همین جهان است که دست کم می توانی امیدوار باشی که روزی کلک خودت را بکنی، امیدی که در آن جهان نمی تواند وجود داشته باشد.”
― صادق هدایت / Sadegh Hedayat

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“اگر زندگانی سپری نمی شد چقدر تلخ و ترسناک بود.”
― صادق هدایت

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Polls

August 2017 Short Classic Poll

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842, 56 pgs

53 votes, 17.0%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 1952, 109 pgs

49 votes, 15.7%

The Lady with the Little Dog by Anton Chekhov, 1899, 80 pgs

34 votes, 10.9%

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, 1966, 126 pgs

32 votes, 10.3%

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, 1819, 60 pgs

31 votes, 9.9%

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville, 1853, 64 pgs

24 votes, 7.7%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764, 125 pgs

24 votes, 7.7%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 1918, 82 pgs

19 votes, 6.1%

Satisfaction Guaranteed by Isaac Asimov, 1951, 15 pgs

15 votes, 4.8%

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry, 1905, 30 pgs

12 votes, 3.8%

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, 1937, 108 pgs

10 votes, 3.2%

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, 1941, 32 pg

9 votes, 2.9%

312 total votes

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