Congregations of Narratologists in Abbas Maroufi’s Symphony of the Dead

Previous works of Abbas Maroufi’s Symphony of the Dead (۱۹۸۹) have been critically analysed from different perspectives. However, less has been focused on the narratology of this literary work. To address this gap, this study is an attempt to investigate Genette’s and Bal’s elements of narratology in Symphony of the Dead. In the narratological analysis, the researchers have focused on time, focalization, mode of narration (‘mimetic’ or 'diegetic), narrator of the story, speech, and thought in the selected literary work. The analysis reveals that time and space, narratives, mimetic narratives and focalization can be applied on Maroufi’s Symphony of the Dead. The findings illustrated that by applying the key concepts of the narratology to this novel, this study advances the argumentation on the narratology of novel from Iran. This study can be used as a guide for examining the issue of narratology in other novels by other novelists.

Keywords:

mimetic and diegetic modes , focalization , time , space , speech and thought , narration