Documentation and Suspense in the Boundary between Reality and Fiction in Postmodern Narratives: The Case Study of the Novel Miss Azadeh

Self-disclosure and eclecticism are two main features of the postmodern literature. All other features are either categorized within the domain of these two or influenced by them. The macro-level of eclecticism is an interwoven representation of the real world and fiction that causes the prevalent delineation to be suspended. One of the main aspects of the suspense in the boundary between reality and fiction is documentation, based on which the narrator tries to cite the real events in different ways or include them within the content of the story to increase the ambiguity of the text. Using a descriptive-analytic method, this study classifies and explains all types of documentations in one of the most outstanding Persian post-modern narratives -  the novel Miss Azadeh</em> and its writer. The results showed that the narrator has interwoven the characters, events, times, places and other issues and concepts of the two real and fictional worlds at the verbal- lexical level in different ways. Moreover, at the visual- imagery level of the text, and based on genres and media such as handwriting, design or plot, painting and picture whose intensity and credence of documentation seem more prominent, the narrator represents the concepts at the verbal-lexical level. These types of narrative aligned with the epistemological context and the principles of genre rules not only suspend the boundary between the reality and fiction, but also add a state of ambiguity to the narrative