Analeptic Narration Style in the Structure of Two Novels of Alaa Al Aswany

We believe that narrative practices have undergone a transformation in fictional literature in moving from classicism to modernism and postmodernism. Although the classics adhere to the sequence of events on the axis of time in the story, modernism has largely dissipated this commitment, so that this inconsistency of sequence of events focuses on time is seen obviously in modernism story writing. One of the ways of modern narrative is “analeptic Narration” method which has been shown in two forms, "Circular Narrations" and "analeptic Narrations". Alaa Al Aswany (1957), a contemporary Egyptian writer, has narrated two novels "Chicago" and "Jacobian Mansion" with a focus on "analeptic Narratives". This article refers to the methods of analeptic narrations in the two mentioned works in a descriptive-analytical manner using library resources.