Comparative Analysis of Surrealist Components in the Novels of Blind Owl and Bloody Cow

The main goal of art and even life has always been to increase the definition of reality to include everything "wonderful". Surrealism aims to define reality in a different way, so that by developing the definitions, things that others call unreal, can be called reality. Andre Breton and Louis Aragon, inspired by Freud's researches, based their new school on the activity of understanding the unconscious mind, which is the source of imagination. The school of surrealism, which was based on the Parisian movement, was formed in Iran under the guidance of Sadegh Hedayat. In the novel of Blind Owl and the novel of Bloody Cow by Modares Sadeghi, there are prominent components of this school such as: first person point of view, objective coincidence, individualism and escape from society, surrealist objects, love and sexual instinct, the world of illusion and dream, uncertain time and place. , imagination, existentialist themes, ambiguity, adaptation of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, myth and symbol, automatic writing, contrast and contradiction, and humor were used. The following writing has been done with a descriptive-analytical method and it has been concluded that common surrealist components are present in both works; but the diversity of the frequency of the common components is more in Blind Owl. With the explanation that the world of the narrator of Blind Owl is wide and in both, there is a surrealist component in various forms in the text.