Homa Katouzian is a social scientist, historian, literary critic and poet. He is The Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St. Antony's College and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, and editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies.
1. Introduction: The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat Homa Katouzian 2.
Sadeq Hedayat's Centenary: Report of Events in Tehran, and Personal
Recollections Jahangir Hedayat 3. Sadeq Hedayat and the Classics: The Case
of the Blind Owl Marta Simidchieva 4. The Blind Owl: Present in the Past or
the Story of a Dream Houra Yavari 5. Influence as Debt: The Blind Owl in
the Literary Marketplace Michael Beard 6. The Blind Owl and the Sound and
the Fury Bharam Meghdadi 7. Women in Hedayat's Fiction Homa Katouzian 8.
Satire in Hajji Aqa Firouzeh Khazrai 9. Narrative Identity in the Works of
Hedayat and his Contemporaries Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 10. Hedayat's
Translations of Kafka and the Logic of Iranian Modernity Nasrin Rahimieh
11. Hedayat and the Experience of Modernity Ramin Jahanbegloo 12. Hedayat,
Vegetarianism and Modernity Hushang Philsooph 13. Man and Animal in
Hedayat's Stray Dog Homa Katouzian
