The Blind Owl (1937) (Persian: بوف کور‎‎, Boof-e koor, About this sound listen ) is Sadegh Hedayat's most enduring work of prose and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of an unnamed pen case painter, the narrator, who sees in his macabre, feverish nightmares that "the presence of death annihilates all that is imaginary.