خلاصة:
“Harb Al-Kalb Al-Thaniyeh”, by Ibrahim Nasrollah, is a fictional novel critics the dictator and warring governments amongst the superpowers. The time and place of the novel are not clear; however, the high frequency of the temporal leaps in the novel from the present to the future and past has caused such elements as “time” and “speed of narration” to gain a lot of importance in narrating the story. The present study uses a descriptive-analytical method to measure the narration pace of the novel based on the theory proposed by Gérard Genette about time and analyze the factors influencing speed and acceleration of the narration. Based on the study findings, the general speed of the narration is positive because it encompasses a very vast and vague temporal span . The narration pace is proved in parts of the story and the author uses such an element as conversation to slow it down so as to retell the hidden and grey angles of the story’s characters to the readers. The author also slackens the speed of narration in some chapters of the story for preserving the novel’s narrative fascination and expanding the volume of the story’s internal world and creation of diverse settings and scenes. He also uses the story characters’ hesitation, retrospective look and episode to create hesitations in the novel’s speed of narration.
ملخص الجهاز:
This research attempts, using a descriptive-analytical method and based on Gerard Genette's theory of time, to examine the temporal continuity and measure the narrative speed of this novel and analyze the factors affecting the speed and acceleration of the narrative.
3. MA in Arabic Language and Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran Received: 09/16/2019 Accepted: 01/19/2020 Abstract Harb Al-Kalb Al-Thaniyeh, written by Ibrahim Nasrollah, is a fictional novel in which the author criticizes the dictator and militant powers of the world.
» 68 ـ The narrative speed in the first, second, fifth, and ninth chapters is positive; because the author makes more use of prolepsis, ellipsis, and condensation, referring to a vast volume of story events within fewer pages; therefore, the continuity of the text is shorter than the continuity of the story.
By using a flashback to the period of the first War of the Dog, the author causes the narrative acceleration to encounter a pause; through this analepsis, the story time, which is narrated in the present, is taken to the distant past, and with this temporal leap, the speed of the narrative is reduced.
Therefore, a coordination is established between the volume of the novel pages occupied and the conversations between Rashed and the castle manager, and in fact, the volume of the text and the events of the story that have occurred within a specific time frame has created a kind of stability in the narrative acceleration: You are thinking of building several hospitals, but I am thinking of building only one hospital of a different kind for the victims of accidents.
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