Document Type : scientific-research
Authors
1 Professor of Persian Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.
2 Ph.D Candidate of Persian Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.
Abstract
Shortness of the published novels is a major problem in modern Persian fiction writing. Modern Persian novelists usually write about thoughts but the thought expressed in these works is not broad enough to create multivolume works such as Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. In the novel Zemestan-e-Bibahar (Winterless Spring), Ibrahim Younesi uses the various capacities of narration to write a novel that not only benefits from his life experience but also contains hidden meanings which allow readers to discover for themselves. Place, time, and other elements in the novel Winterless Spring are extended, and the language and ideas used in it, are in proportion to this breadth. They are varied and harmonious. In this article, we have tried to analyze and evaluate the author's choices of paratext, including book title, preface and cover design, and the text of the novel such as narrator and narrative techniques and the harmony between all of these elements. The author uses the possibilities and capacities of novel writing such as humor, contradiction, meta-fictional elements, intuitive and ideological functions of the narrator, conscious use of time appropriate to the narration of the novel, choosing a specific place in the story, postmodern view of history and parallelism of past and present. The author's collection of tricks proves that the novel is beyond personal experience and biography; it is a rebellion against time at the height of despair. The narrator, disappointed with the narrative, battles with time and finally finds himself defeated by it.
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