Analytic Investigation of Narrative Acceleration in the “Stone of Patience”

By adopting an analytic –descriptive research methodology, the present study analyzes the narrative acceleration in the “Stone of Patience “novel. To assess acceleration of narration, Gérard Genette divides the time of narrative text’s reading in the required time of novel’s events to be happened in real time. In this novel with stream of consciousness narrative technique, the future comes back in advance. From this view point, frequent retrospections along with several long shows guaranty the existence of novel. In this novel, temporal limit of fiction is not clear and the measurement or assessment of narrative acceleration based on speculation is not realistic. Since fictional axis of this novel except the shows are the result of two or more characters’ monologues. To assess narrative acceleration in each fictional axis, it should never ignore this phenomenon in the narrators section of that part. It is expected that narrative acceleration in this novel be fix and neutral due to this fact that the “Stone of Patience” is a text with numerous scenes. But, this novel is full of descriptive and explicative pause, retrospection, the representation of characters’ internal world and outer fictional narratives making the narrative acceleration slow.