Why is Sadegh Hedayat's novel, The Blind Owl, considered to be such an antinovel?

First appeared in Tehran in 1941 as a serial in the daily Iran and translated into French by Roger Lescot in 1953، The Blind Owl follow a disconcerting storyline. Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat''s masterpiece، this novel introduces its author - since his death in 1951 - 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.