The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the formation and development of textual agents as subjects in the linguistic-narrative and epistemological levels in Ata Nahai’s novel, Birds in the Wind. One can conclude that the narrative is formed with a metafictional structure and the author-narrator has endeavored to develop himself and the act of writing as the subject-object continuum through some narrative layers and a number of fictional characters, i.e. he has represented each stage of his life through a distinct narrative and an apparently different character. This multiplicity of characters, which takes a cyclic form throughout the story and the narrative layers, renovates and intensifies the anxiety of being and the act of writing for the subject-object with a Kurdish lived experience or what Dilthey used to call “das Erlebnis.” On the other hand, he is represented in the contradictory situation of hero/loser: the very picture of the Iranian-Kurdish man at the time.
