In his later years, feeling the socio-political problems of the time, Hedayat started attacking the two major causes of Iran's decimation, the monarchy and the clergy, and through his stories he tried to impute the deafness and blindness of the nation to the abuses of these two major powers. He felt alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, and his last published work, "The Message of Kafka", bespeaks melancholy, desperation, and the sense of doom experienced by those subjected to discrimination and repression.