The present paper, informed by the principles of comparative cultural studies, is an attempt to trace the parallel wistful search for identity within the cases of Hedayat's The Blind Owl (1937) and Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929). We argue that the products of these two authors are comparably the outcome of their similar understanding of transformed and stained cultural and socio-historical conditions coloured by an evocative reminiscence of the past that is used as a tool for critiquing the present. Their creations are platforms on which the protagonists interweave the real and unreal, and devotion and revulsion in an apparently futile attempt to nostalgically re-create a lost identity marked by America's Great Depression and Iran's inefficient dynasties whose loss and effects (symbolised by the disgraced female characters) have made them confused and imbalanced. Published around 1930s, both stories are portrayals of stained values of the time because of which both main characters feel confused and lost in a world marked by degeneration, degradation, disillusionment and madness. Hence, by juxtaposing these two stories, this article discusses how subtly and similarly Hedayat and Faulkner interposed their deep-seated concern over their countries' cultural and socio-historical upheavals into their famous literary masterpieces, amidst two critical eras of their countries' annals.