Sadegh Hedayat

Sadegh Hedayat صادقهدایت was one of large the writer S Iran iens of the twentieth century (born in 1903 - died in 1951). Contemporary - inter alia - of Houshang Golshiri, Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh and Sadegh Choubak, it is famous for his novel the Owl plugs .

Biography

Sadeq Hedayat, born with Teheran the February 17th 1903, died in Paris the April 9th 1951. It goes in France in 1926 to continue its studies there. It returns in its country in 1930, but never occupies but administrative employment there.

In 1936, it accomplishes in India a voyage whose it always preserved a very strong impression. He also visits the Soviet Ouzbékistan in 1944.

In December 1950 it returns in France, but gives itself death afterwards five months. All its work, strange and sinks, is marked by the obsession of the suicide. It tries first once to commit suicide during its years out of studies in Europe.

It leaves several collections of news evoke popular manners Iranian Persians, coloured tables of a very original Réalisme poetic. One has also to him some imaginations full with humor and which make think of Jarry. But its Chef-d'oeuvre remains a Romance fantastic the Owl plugs, which reports the hallucinations of a smoker of Opium continued until in its life present by the tragedies interferences of a former existence. André Breton arranged this book with the number of the Classiques of the Surréalisme, movement whose Hedayat however followed only very indirectly the influence (let us note that interested, as of the beginnings of their notoriety, by Kafka and Sartre, it published a test on the first and translated long extracts of the second). Judging the Owl plugs too daring for the public Iran IEN, Hedayat first of all gave only one confidential edition of it (1936); it awaits 1941 for the real publication of this book which, even then, made scandal with Teheran. Having the perfectly French, the writer writes in this Langue two Nouvelles.

It is finally necessary to mention, beside the literary work of Hedayat, its translations of texts Pehlevi S and its work on the Persan Folklore which, the ones and the others, exerted a considerable influence on the young elite Intellectuel of Teheran.

Sadegh Hedayat is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise to Paris.

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