Document Type : Research paper
Authors
1 Shahid Beheshti University. Faculty of Literature and Humanities. Department of Arabic Language and Literature
2 Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Faculty of Literature and Humanities. Shahid Beheshti University. Tehran
Abstract
The time and narrative paradoxes are of the basic techniques embedded in the novels, and by removing them, the narration and the key notion intended by the narrator to convey to the audience fade. Time, along with other narrative elements, plays an important role in determining the nature, form and structure of the narration; and form is also closely related to time element processing. The Novel “Caine! Where Is Your Brother Abel?” tells the story of the events during the rule of Karamanlides over Libya. The main theme is the murder of a brother by a younger brother to win the throne and determines the position of each character in search of their ego. The importance of reading this novel is in depicting a specific era in the history of Libya and linking the audience to this work and the artistic mastery of its author. He brought together history, literature, reality and fantasy. This article examines time paradoxes, focusing on the flashbacks, internal and external foresight and its motivations with a critical-analytical approach to other time-related narrative techniques, such as an acceleration in narration. All these occurred in the elimination, slowing down of narration speed, pause and dialogue scene. , suddenly and without the intervention of the novelist. In order to pause, the novelist used description as one of the techniques of slowing down and linking the dialogue scene with other narrative functions. The description of the characters is one of the most beautiful narrative pauses used by the author.
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