Eternal Recurrence in The Blind Owl.
This article analyzes the surprisingly consistent way in which Sadeq Hedayat's novella, The Blind Owl, represents the concept of eternal recurrence. Hedayat employs repetition in a unique manner. Neither narrator ever remarks upon or seems to notice that events, motifs, and similar or identical epit...
| Publicado en: | Iranian Studies Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 471 - 489 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2010
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