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Sadeq Hedayat is a deconstructionist artist-thinker who had created his own style in his writing. One can venture to say that his The Blind Owl has been criticized more than any other Iranian literary work in more than half a century ago and still critics reveal some fresh aspects of this masterpiece. Critics have analyzed surrealistic, symbolic, existentialist, nationalistic, expressionistic and metaphysical dimensions of this work. From the lens of comparative literature, a lot has been written on the influences of Schopenhauer, Sartre, Maupassant, Nerval and Kafka among others on Hedayat both structurally and thematically. In this research, the undeniable influences of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves on The Blind Owl and their undiscovered similarities are scrutinized. Furthermore, inter-textual aspects of the two mentioned masterpieces are analyzed thematically and in this respect one of the major themes of The Waves, that is, narrative exhaustion, is analyzed and its resonance in The Blind Owl is traced. Through textual comparison, it is shown that how some of The Blind Owl’s sentences have dazzling similarities with some key phrases and sentences of The Waves.

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Time and perception are two major concerns of Woolf in many of her novels and short stories. Woolf as a modernist writer often tries in her fiction to find an epistemological solution to the problems of mortality and immortality, appearance and reality and diversity and unity and she succeeds, I think, by taking on a kind of perception that is intuitive and temporal. For her, true perception is time-bound, but like Bergson she divides time into mechanical and organic one. In her writing, she often associates symbolically the former with death and aridity and the latter with life and fertility, presenting them in the images, to name but a few of keyboard of a piano or alphabetical letters and tree or green shawl and dress, respectively. Evidently, in her views and the solution, she finds to the problems of time and perception Woolf is influenced by Bergson whose theory of time has also influenced so many other modernists. This paper elaborates on the relationship between time and perception in the works of Woolf, especially in her two major novels To the Lighthouse (1927) and Mrs Dalloway (1924) and her short story “An Unwritten Novel” (1921).