Farah Osouli, in her latest collection of works titled Listen! Do You Hear the Blowing of Darkness, which has been completed over the course of a decade, addresses the ongoing issues and calamities in the Middle East with a structure similar to Persian miniature painting and themes of social concern and rejection of violence. In this collection, she creates new hypertexts by drawing inspiration from famous works of art history as pre-texts.
The aim of this study is to explore the internal layers of one of the works in this collection, titled Me and Goya, which is inspired by Francisco Goya's famous painting The Third of May. This exploration is conducted using the ideas of the French theorist Gérard Genette under the concept of transtextuality. Through a descriptive-analytical method and a comparative study approach, and by utilizing the research foundations of Genette's transtextuality, the question is addressed: What type of transtextual relationships exist between Farah Osouli’s work and the source of inspiration? This research demonstrates that Osouli, in expressing her idea, adopts the stylistic elements of Persian miniature painting and alters Goya’s original pre-text style. In addition to formal transposition, her works also contain various thematic transpositions, such as cultural, narrative, spatial, temporal, environmental, gender-related, and symbolic transformations.