A Study of Affecting Factors in the Speed of Narrative in Gholam Hossein Sa'edi’s Smiling Tatar in the Light of Gerard Genette's Narratology

Time is a significant and essential component in the creation of a novel. It has such a fundamental position in narrative, some critics believe that the most significant feature of narrative identification is its time. The authors’ playing with time increase the attractiveness of narrative, and indicates the way s/he chooses the events. By going through the authors’ playing with time, we realize the significance of an event in the author's view to achieve her/his goal. Genette, French structuralist theorist, has played a significant role in the development of the concept of time in narrative, as one of the important components of the advancement of narrative. Considering this issue, the present research paper has explored affecting factors on the speed of narrative, through a descriptive-analytical approach in Sa'edi’s Smiling Tatar in the light of Genette's Narratology. The speed of narrative is explored to find out the duration of actions/events over time and find out what the portion of a book is devoted to them in a specific span of time. The results of this research indicate that in Sa'edi’s Smiling Tatar, the author creates a modern story by creating a narrative, based on non-linear structure, in which the element of the time is very cardinal. Based on the concept of time in Genette's narratology, it can be concluded that in different parts of Sa'edi’s Smiling Tatar, due to having a lot of reducing factors of the text narrative speed, the validity is negative and the speed of narration is slow.