We think of them as ' aliens' because we are alienated from what it is within ourselves that holds these posthuman possibilities open to us. These beings are addressing us from our own future. He argues that Hedayat aimed to reestablish Iran's perennial role as the cultural crossroads of the Western world and the Indo-Buddhist East.On Jorjani's reading, The Blind Owl is ultimately about the ' Imaginal' metamorphosis of humans into higher beings. Jorjani reveals Hedayat's complex appropriation and adaptation of libertine Gnostic and antinomian Tantric ideas. This belief is no doubt influenced by Hedayat's own suicide in Paris in 1951.In Novel Folklore, Jason Reza Jorjani, whose grandfather was best friends with Hedayat, offers a revolutionary interpretation of The Blind Owl. Often compared to the classics of Existentialism and Gothic Horror, The Blind Owl is widely believed to be cursed, so that anyone who reads it seriously is driven to suicide. Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl is considered by many to be the greatest work of modern Persian literature.
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