Hedayat In 1987, Raul Ruiz made the feature film La Chouette aveugle in France: a loose adaption of Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl. Its formal innovations led critics and filmmakers to declare the film 'French cinema's most beautiful jewel of the past decade.' Hedayat's last day and the night was adapted into the short film, The Sacred and the Absurd, directed by Ghasem Ebrahimian, which was featured in the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004. In 2005, Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai has made a docudrama about Hedayat entitled Goftogu ba saye = Talking with a shadow. Its main theme is the influence of Western movies such as Der Golem, Nosferatu, and Dracula on Hedayat. In 2009, Mohsen Shahrnazdar and Sam Kalantari made a documentary film about Sadegh Hedayat named From No. 37. See also Intellectual movements in Iran Persian literature Persian philosophy Sources Hassan Kamshad, Modern Persian Prose Literature Acquaintance with Sadegh Hedayat, by M. F. Farzaneh, Publisher: Markaz, Tehran, 2008. Sadeq Hedayat, the foremost short story writer of Iran The Sacred and the Absurd, a film about Hedayat's death Further references Homa Katouzian, Sadeq Hedayat: Life and legend of an Iranian writer, I.B. Tauris, 2000. Hassan Kamshad, Modern Persian Prose Literature, Ibex Publishers, 1996. Michael C. Hillmann, Hedayat's "The Blind Owl" Forty Years After, Middle East Monograph No. 4, Univ of Texas Press, 1978. Iraj Bashiri, Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of The Blind Owl, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1975. Iraj Bashiri, The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat, 1984. Sayers, Carol, The Blind Owl and Other Hedayat Stories, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984. What is left for me from Sadegh Hedayat? Excerpt from "Sadegh Hadayat: Dar Tare Ankaboot" (In the Spider's Web), by M. F. Farzaneh, 2005. Hedayat's last night out in Paris Excerpt from M. F. Farzaneh's "Ashenayee ba Sadegh Hedayat" (Knowning Sadegh Hedayat), 2004. References External links Sadeq Hedayat's Life by Iraj Bashiri. Sadeq Hedayat's Corner, further articles and English translations by Iraj Bashiri. Persian Language & Literature — Sadeq Hedayat. Hedayat's art work Audiobooks (Ketab-e Gooya). Hedayat Family History (in English). Sadeq Hedayat's Heritage, Jadid Online, 17 July 2008 (in English). An audio slideshow (with English subtitles) by Shokā Sahrāi, with Mr Jahāngir Hedayat (son of General Isā Hedayat, Sadegh Hedayat's brother) speaking. (6 min 28 sec). 1903 births 1951 suicides 20th-century novelists 20th-century Iranian short story writers Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery Iranian agnostics Iranian emigrants to France Iranian male