Marzieh Balighi - Professeur assistante, Université de Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

 Abstract First appeared in Tehran in ۱۹۴۱ as a serial in the daily Iran and translated into French by Roger Lescot in ۱۹۵۳, The Blind Owl follow a disconcerting storyline. Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, this novel introduces its author - since his death in ۱۹۵۱ - as one of the main founders of modern Persian literature. But this work is considered to be such an antinovel, challenging to traditional narrative. This is a challenge that results in a very strange and complex text characterized by the absence of a coherent plot, the characters depicted as unreal, the unrealistic places, an undefined temporal structure and at last by the complexity of its atmosphere, irreducible to the interpretation. It therefore requires a non-linear reading. In this article, we will discuss how is applied, in this novel, the challenges to the major components of the prose narrative. 

Keywords: The Blind Owl, Sadegh Hedayat, novel, antinovel, Narrative Structure, frustrated reader