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 / Firouzeh Khazrai -- 9. Narrative identity in the works of Hedayat's 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 Philosoph -- 13. Man and animal in Hedayat's Stray Dog / Homa Katouzian.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Hidayat, Sadiq, 1903-1951- Criticism and interpretation - Congresses