This volume is the first comprehensive study of the life, learning, and the entire corpus of Hedayat's fictional writings. It surveys previous critical literature about Hedayat and examines his collections of short stories for theme, literary technique, symbolism, style, and humor. This volume also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Hedayat's works of fiction, Persian and English sources on Hedayat, and a list of books deemed to have influenced Hedayat in writing his fiction.



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