A Narrative of Sadegh Hedayat’s Life Published

According to the Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), “The Man Who Hunted Death,” written by Karim Feizi, is a readable and distinctive work in the field of literary biography. It examines and analyzes the life of Sadegh Hedayat, one of Iran’s greatest and most influential contemporary writers.

This book is not merely a historical retelling; rather, it is a novel-like, engaging, and at the same time documented narrative of the personal, spiritual, and literary life of the author of “The Blind Owl.” In this work, Karim Feizi has attempted to address the existential enigma of Hedayat and the reasons for his decision to commit suicide in Paris. The author’s central question is: “Who was Sadegh Hedayat? Was he an unappreciated genius mercilessly abandoned by shadows, or a capable writer whose suffering and anonymity in his time led him to ‘hunt death’ before the age of fifty?”

In this book, an effort has been made to investigate the hidden dimensions of Hedayat’s mind and life, and to represent the factors that led him to this bitter fate.

The book delves into aspects of Hedayat’s life that are key to understanding his destiny, including poverty and destitution, problems and prohibitions on publishing his works, and psychological nightmares and fears. The title “The Man Who Hunted Death” directly refers to Hedayat’s suicide, and the author tries to show that this decision was not a sudden act, but the result of a long path of despair, anonymity, and lack of understanding.

Morvarid Publishing recently released this book for 230,000 Tomans.