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Sadeq Hedayat is one of my favorite author in the literary world. The Blind Owl that introduced me to Sadeq Hedayat many years ago and it has entered my list of the best. Hedayat's masterpiece The Blind Owl attracted me with the very first lines, and caused me to experience a kind of hysteria with the last page of the book.
Coming to the content of the book; the hero is a heavily depressed man who earn his income with the paintings. He takes alcohol and opium continuously to make himself numb and stop thinking. One day as he walks to the kitchen to deliver wine to his uncle, he sees the elderly man and the stunningly beautiful girl through a hole in his wall, which causes his lonely existence to change. After this sight, he begins to think her all day hysterically. One night, he finds her waiting at the door of his home. After this strange encounter, he searches for anything to offer her then goes to get a bottle of wine for her. When he brings the wine, he thinks that the girl is asleep, and drops a sip in her mouth. He did, however, realize that she had passed away.He wants to ignore the cold of death with the warmth of his body, but later on realizes that it's not working. Then, he henhe decides to bury the girl by dismembering her and packing her pieces into a suitcase since he thinks she has given up on life and given her soul to him. The old man he saw with the girl, the carriage driver who came to pick her up, his uncle who came to visit, and even himself in some parts of the book, are actually all the same person transformed according to his descriptions. All the characters transform into each other and repeat themselves like eternal recurrence, creating a metaphoric effect. Always different faces, but same suffering.
According to Nietszche, power is the assertion of life and the will to exist. It now refers to an ongoing process. The "camel" stage is the first stage of this structure, while the "lion" stage is the second step. Values are called into question and the process of self-creation is launched in the lion phrase. As I mentioned above, the main character's preference for coexsitence as a form of escape has already been a conscious part of this process. In this part, there are an emphasis on individuality as far as the questioning of values. One of the important parts that the main character mentions being an individual is, “I shall try to put down everything that I recall, everything about the events and their interrelationship remaining in my memory. Perhaps by doing so I can make some sense out of them. No. I want to become sure. I want to personally believe it. It is immaterial whether others believe me or not. To put it plainly, I am afraid that I may die tomorrow without knowing myself. My life experiences have taught me that a frightful chasm separates me from the others".
In the first pages of the book, in which he describes the process of becoming oneself based on the works of his own life, he says, “Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me will I come back unto you”. Finding yourself is a difficult adventure. The more the main character gets closer to what is right for him in this adventure, the more he suffers. He sinks deeper.
In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche writes that there is a stop point to reach the ubermansch. Disgust is metaphorically a revolt against the values created by humans. This is a loathing for the mundane. We can say that, there is disgust in two different dimensions. One is the disgust for the values itself and the other for the creator of the values. The main character experiences the most severe expression of this disgust in the book. Alcohol and opium addiction gives him a little escape from this nausea. When effects of alchol and opium gets decrease, he begins to suffer from reality of the life. The book begins with: "There are certain sores in life that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it." In this way, Sadeq Hedayat fed his depression and explored the bottom by being honest with himself, even cruelly, with the realities of the world that his graceful soul could not tolerate.
Although the text is fictional, Sadeq Hedayat kind of rehearsed his death with The Blind Owl. From this point of view, one of the sentences that impressed me the most: "There are those who begin to struggle with death when they are twenty years of age, while others die in a moment, a very quiet and peaceful death; they die in the same way that a tallow burner that has run out of fuel is extinguished.” I am talking about a man who is afraid of death, but also can’t help thinking about it.
The first meaning of nihilism found its principle in the will to deny the will to power. The second meaning finds the principle of the pessimism of weakness in the reactive forces, which are reduced to themselves, in the reactive life alone and naked. The first meaning is a passive nihilism, the second meaning is a active nihilism. In particular, the feeling of pity, which finds its origin in Christian morality, destroys the forces of man, just like resentment. On the other hand, for Nietzsche, force is not being included in power. At this point, the main character's resentment towards people who ignore him and make fun of him is conveyed with these words: "Are not these people who resemble me, who seemingly share my needs, whims and desires gathered here to deceive me? Are they not shadows brought into existence to mock and beguile me?". The fierce of main character can be seen as a reactive force here. And with this sentence, a nihilist person exhibits the inner world of the individual.
Finally, after burying the mysterious girl he killed, the jug dug out of the ground, the jug and picture that the old man held under his arm at the end of the book, is the same as the picture that the hero draws on the qalamdan. The old man sitting under the tree and the girl who gave him the temporary beauty of convolvulus… When he first saw the jug coming out of the ground, the hero was relieved to think that there might be someone who had suffered the same pain, experienced the same troubles and had the same thoughts as him in the past. Sadeq Hedayat may have given Omar Khayyam a nod in this way, who knows... At the end of the book, the subject is not tied anywhere, there is no conclusion. Does it actually have to be connected somewhere? Events and situations connected to the result are over. But The Blind Owl never ends. This work is a magical metaphor that will make the reader come up with different meanings every single time as read it.
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