The First International Conference on Narrative Across Literary Genres, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran, cilt.0, sa.0, 2017 (Düzenli olarak gerçekleştirilen hakemli kongrenin bildiri kitabı)
This paper aims
to critically scrutinize Samad Behrangi’s Talkhoun through the lens of
Gerard Genette’s narratology and demonstrate in what aspects tunneling in Talkhoun’s
narrative method spotlights the conclusion and the closure of the text;
however, employing parallel mirrors and spiral style in Chista Yasrebi’s The
Witch and the Talisman creates an ouroboros-like narrative mood in which
the perplexing order of stories serves as Matryoshkan atmosphere and deserts
the reader in the depth of the third story while the first and the second ones
are still incomplete. Moreover, it could be highlighted that, via Genettian
perspective, Samad Behrangi’s Talkhoun manifests a cause-effect
interconnection between chain-stories whereas Chista Yasrebi’s The Witch and
the Talisman expresses a spring of occurrences in which the stories remain
unclosured and uncompleted.