Abstract
This chapter presents a career-oriented and chronological biography of Sadegh Hedayat to historically locate his work and list his literary creations. Since this study makes the case for the necessity of broadening the critical horizon to study the diversity of Hedayat’s creations as a historical development of ideas and genres, this chapter uses the chronological narrative to display how reading his work in light of a few cliched biographical ideas is insufficient for appreciating an intellectual development that is a major clue to understanding Iranian literary modernity. Hedayat did not theorize his ideas and only occasionally reflected on aspects of his work (e.g., on translations or folklore); so, this approach is a step toward a new and theoretical look at his literary career.
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