The Blind Owl
The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name is never given. He feels an overbearing need to recount an experience he went through that has shattered his whole existence. A beautiful woman, an old man and a cypress tree are the recurring motifs.
The story is narrated by a young man, a painter of miniatures, whose name is never given. He feels an overbearing need to recount an experience he went through that has shattered his whole existence. A beautiful woman, an old man and a cypress tree are the recurring motifs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802144287 (0802144284)
Publish date: 2010-10-12
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1981-04-20)“I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, t...
As other readers have noted, the beginning of this novel reads like some pages from Edgar Allen Poe. It is the narration of a hyper-imaginative, morbidly sensitive man, as he tells what he claims is the story of his last months, dreamlike, obsessively repetitive, and full of wild, mystical ideas, wh...
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