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/ Bahram Meghdadi.- 7.Women in Hedayat’s fiction/ Homa Katouzian.- 8.Satire in Hajji Aqa/ Firoozeh 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: altruism, Leonardo da Vinci, and sub-humanization/ Hushang Philsooph.- 13. Man and animal in Hedayat’s "Stray Dog"/ Homa Katouzian
Hidayat, Sadiq, 1903-1951 -- Addresses
Hedayat, Sadeq, 1903 - 1951 -- Biography and criticim