The Comparative Study of The Blind Owl, The Waves, and The Trial

Comparative literature examines the author’s interaction under favor of undiscovered contributions of forth authors’ works. This study scrutinizes the ways in which The Waves by Virginia Woolf and The Trial by Franz Kafka may have impacted The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat. The main face of this research is wielding the intertextual relationship in terms of thematic analysis and tracing the reflection of narrative in Hedayat, Woolf, and Kafka due to textual adaptation—by considering the similarity of key sentences. The preconception of life, thoughts, styles, and plots raised by Kafka and Virginia Woolf is a testament to Sadegh Hedayat’s critical intelligence, cognition, and hypercriticism in discovering the Western authors’ originality and artistic uniqueness in the service of Persian readers. Regarding the exceptional case of existentialism in constructing meaning in the works of three authors by grasping the nature of language, the attribution of ideas in the realm of similarities of novel narrators is discussed.