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Sadiq Hidayat (also known as Sadegh Hedayat) was born in Teheran, Iran in 1903. Educated in Iran, France, and Belgium, he was acquainted with the works of such prominent Western authors as Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Franz Kafka. In the late 1940s he studied existential philosophy with Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris, where he tragi Sadiq Hidayat (also known as Sadegh Hedayat) was born in Teheran, Iran in 1903. Educated in Iran, France, and Belgium, he was acquainted with the works of such prominent Western authors as Edgar Allen Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Franz Kafka. In the late 1940s he studied existential philosophy with Jean-Paul Sartre in Paris, where he tragically committed suicide in 1951. Generally recognized as the greatest Persian writer of the 20th century, Hidayat brought his country's language and literature into the mainstream of contemporary writing. In addition to his talent for writing fiction, Hedayat was also a gifted intellectual with remarkable insights into the human condition: ""in spite of the astonishing progress in almost all fields of knowledge, savagery is still the order of our time." This is a collection of his essays. The text is entirely in the Persian (Farsi) language.