Comparative Analysis Hmsanyhay novel "The Blind Owl" and the novel "Zorba has Greek»

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

Asieh Zabihnia Emran ¹ ( Associate Prof of Persian Language and Literature, Payameh Noor University of Yazd. )

Received: 2018-03-18 Accepted : 2018-03-18 Published : 2017-11-22

Keywords: : Comparative literature, critical philosophical novel, the Blind Owl, Zorba the Greek,

Abstract :

  Literary fictions of different nations can be very similar to each other in terms of both subject matter and themes, and structure and narrative style. No doubt, those works which have successfully gained the attention of their audience and have been fundamental in creating literary movements, in line with the intellectual and social changes of their societies, can play a significant role in establishing dialogical interaction among literary works of various nations. Zorba the Greek (1946), the famous novel by Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) and the Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat are in fact among these literary works. Given the significance of these two novels in the Greek and Persian Literature, the distinctive structural and thematic similarities between the two works and also the considerable acclamation earned by the writers and their academic and scholarly readers in the two countries, attempts have been made in this paper to examine these two works through a comparative analytical approach. Results of the analysis suggest that the two novels are substantially similar in terms of their Khayyami narrative style, critical and pessimistic view toward life, strong tendency to solitude and death and narrative and structural aspects.