Mohammad Raza Farsian; Fatemeh Ghaderi
Abstract
Albert Camus, the French writer and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, is one of the writers who had a great influence on Iranian intellectuals and writers. Camus is considered as an absurdist writer who always paid attention to certain notions such as death, suicide and revolt ...
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Albert Camus, the French writer and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, is one of the writers who had a great influence on Iranian intellectuals and writers. Camus is considered as an absurdist writer who always paid attention to certain notions such as death, suicide and revolt in his works. Sadegh Hedayat is an Iranian writer whose works feature the notion of death. Because some critics consider him as Camus's disciple in absurdism, the comparative study of the notion of death, which is one of the principle notions in the works of these two writers, seems important and interesting. Considering the significant importance of these two writers, each one was the subject of literary and philosophical studies in both national and international research. This study, using a comparative approach, attempts to examine the notion of death, in thoughts of Camus and Hedayat. It also seeks an answer for this question: Does the notion of death have the same place in the thoughts of these two writers?
