The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl is a Pahlavi era novel by Iranian author Hedayat. In its first few pages, you might be tricked into disappointment, thinking "oh here we go again, another man-hits-rock-bottom-because-of-failed-love-with-gorgeous-woman story." But you will soon realize that you are inside of the head of a man very similar to Beckett's Molloy... more like Molloy if he had been less OCD and more bipolar and forced to live around others. The book has this beautiful repetition of certain sentences that turn different places into the same places, different people into the same people, recurring, haunting this poor man through his life or many lives.

Don't read it before you go to bed, though. You will have frightening dreams!