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

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 4, 906 - 915, 31.12.2024

Saman Hashemıpour

https://doi.org/10.37999/udekad.1541890

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Hedayat, The Blind Owl, The Waves, Franz Kafka, Narration

Kör Baykuş, Dalgalar ve Dava Üzerine Karşılaştırmalı İnceleme

Abstract

Karşılaştırmalı edebiyat, başka yazarların katkıları ışığında, eserlerindeki keşfedilmemiş etkileşimi incelemektedir. Bu çalışma, Virginia Woolf’un Dalgalar ve Franz Kafka’nın Dava romanlarının Sadegh Hedayat’in Kör Baykuş eserini muhtemel olarak nasıl etkilediklerini eleştirel biçimde inceliyor. Bu araştırmanın temel amacı, metinlerarası ilişkiyi tematik analiz açısından ele alarak ve Hedayat, Woolf ve Kafka’da metinsel uyarlamalar yoluyla anlatının yansımasını ve anahtar cümlelerin benzerliğini göz önünde bulundurmaktır. Kafka ve Virginia Woolf’un yaşam, düşünce, üslup ve olay örgüsü hakkında ortaya koydukları anlayış, yani Batılı yazarların özgünlüğü ve sanatsal benzersizliğini, Sadegh Hedayat’ın aşırı eleştirel zekâsı ve bilişi ile birleşerek Farsça okuyucuların hizmetine sunulmuştur. Hedayat, Kafka ve Woolf’un eserlerinde varoluşçuluğun anlam inşasındaki özgün anlayışları ele alınarak ve dilin doğası kavranarak roman ravilerinin benzer görüş isnadı ile incelenmiştir.

Keywords

Hedayat, Kör Baykuş, Dalgalar, Franz Kafka, Anlatım

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