“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

“Scientific and Specialized Journal of Modern Literary Research”

Study and analysis of the components of the classical and modern novel in Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 PhD in Persian Language and Literature, National Public Libraries Institution, General Directorate of Public Libraries of Qazvin Province, Qazvin, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Khodabandeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khodabandeh, Iran.
Abstract
The new novel is a new form of writing that always seeks to find feelings, vague spiritual impressions, and human escapes, and then conveys them from an objective and impartial perspective that does not belong to the narrator and the reader. A writing that has lost its clarity, explanation of values, principles of traditional order, modern human descriptions, politics, etc. In the classic novel, the story corresponds to the understanding of an ordered world, but in the new novel, the story falls apart, and the attractiveness of the subject and the logical sequence of events and characters in the story are not important to the author. Therefore, Sadegh Hedayat's novel The Blind Owl is considered a modern novel that includes components such as uncertainty, disjointed plot, ambiguity, heterogeneous time and place, formalism, realized characters, the flow of the mind, the serious presence of the reader, and an open ending. The purpose of this research is to examine and analyze the components of the modern novel in Sadegh Hedayat's The Blind Owl. The research method is descriptive-analytical and library-based. The results of the research show that among these characteristics, uncertainty, ambiguity, and disjointed plot have a very high frequency.
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