This article argues that certain features of the narrative structure of The Blind Owl, in particular the relativity and subjectivity of time and place and the constant intersection of memories and experiences, can be aligned with Bergson’s interpretation of temporality and consciousness. Likewise, for Bergson, consciousness is characterized by flux and continuity as it processes all previous memories and experiences synchronously, as if they were all parts of a unified and organic whole. Bergson refutes the logical and linear sequence of time and regards it as an indivisible whole that simultaneously posits the past, the present and the future on the same plane – the eternal present. This article aims to explore Henri Bergson’s notions of durée and simultaneity in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl (1937), a prominent Modernist narrative in contemporary Iranian literature.
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