TY - JOUR ID - 29884 TI - A Study and Analysis of Taboo in"Boof-e Koor" JO - Persian Literature JA - JPL LA - en SN - 2251-9262 AU - Tayefi, Shirzad AU - Khojasteh, Elnaz AD - Y1 - 2012 PY - 2012 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 122 KW - Narration KW - Psycho-Criticism KW - Sadegh Hedayat KW - Taboo KW - The Blind Owl DO - 10.22059/jpl.2012.29884 N2 - Sadegh Hedayat, as a pioneer writer of Iranian contemporary novel, has always used psychological motifs in his works. His "Boof-e Koor"[The Blind Owl], out of his other works, is much more influenced by psychological motifs and can be regarded as a psychological novel. What seems important being analyzed in this story is the approach of narrator and his contradictions toward Sadegh Hedayat, himself.The narrator, as the story’s main axis, is the one whose mind structure should be carefully recognized to judge about his manner of narration. Since the narrator’s mind has many contradictions and incompatibilities, his character structure seems being constructed out of various taboos orienting his mind.In this study we try to psychoanalyze the narrator’s character, his spiritual taboos and the reasons of their formation to understand why the narrator's character has been formed in this way. Woman seems being the most principle social and psychological taboo of the story. The narrator’s special psychological structure in various stages of his mental development reflects three female characters throughout the story. UR - https://jpl.ut.ac.ir/article_29884.html L1 - https://jpl.ut.ac.ir/article_29884_c36b00c6a9b06a3bacf33e4543a98d0e.pdf ER -