Study of narrative speed and its mechanisms in the novel “Ghanimat”

The element of speed is one of the most important components of the narrative process, which occupies a large space within modern literary studies. The famous theorist Jarrar Genet has proposed valuable opinions regarding narrative pacing in the novel and the techniques that are used to speed up or slow down the pace of narration of events. From this standpoint, in this research paper, we studied the novel “Ghanimat” by the Iranian writer “Sadiq Karamyar,” which dealt with the facts of the Iraqi war imposed on Iran from the perspective of narrative speed, based on the descriptive and analytical approach and in light of Jarar Jenet’s theories. Through our tracking of the novel, we tried to study the narrative speed and the mechanisms of speeding up and slowing down the narration of events, which the writer employed according to the goals that serve the novel, the most important of which are: deletion, cancellation, temporal anticipation, condensation, tempo, and... such as the mechanisms of speeding up, description, and retrieval. Time, drawing character features, poetic rhythm, dialogue, etc.