Description as a cinematic preparation in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel The Seluch's vacancy

Description plays a fundamental role as a basic element in creating space, expressing details, illustrating and making the story real. Since description has the capacity to create dynamic images and show character, place, time, as well as advance the story to create a space beyond the story and increase the dramatic aspect of a fictional work. In this way, the dramatic capacity of a work can be examined and evaluated. Therefore, in this research, the novel " The Seluch's vacancy " by Dowlatabadi, which is a realistic novel full of detailed descriptions, has been examined in order to match the descriptions of this story with the shots that are used in the cinema, its dramatics aspects turn out that it can be used in a movie adaptation. The method of research is library and documents, which has been done by descriptive-analytical method. The results of this research make it clear that the element of realistic description in this novel can be well transformed into cinematic shots and the Editing, which is a completely cinematic method, can be seen in the shots created by the description in the text of the story, and this fictional work has a dramatical capacity and provides the possibility of its cinematic adaptation.