The blind owl
ISBN:
9780714501338 (0714501336)
Publisher: Calder
Pages no: 130
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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