:: year 22, Issue 77 (12-2014) ::
Persian Language and Literature 2014, 22(77): 39-61 Back to browse issues page
Time and Narrative in Shab-e Hol
Hossein Bayat 1, Asgar Asgari Hasanaklou
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Shab-e Hol is a novel which due to its time of publication in the midst of the Islamic Revolution was not well received has many structural and technical values ​​for readers, writers, and critics. Because of the much complexity of the narrative and the difficulty of its reading, there are disagreements about the identity of the narrator and the chronological order of the narratives in the few reviews published on the novel. This paper focuses on the time and narrative in this novel and explains the ambiguities of time and narrative and the arrangement of the characters in Shab-e Hol. It further shows that the author consciously intended to write a modern novel and create doubts in the minds of his readers in order to reflect his philosophical insights affected by life in the modern era.

Keywords: Shab-e Hol, time, narrative, modern novel, anti-novel, stream of consciousness.
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