Structuralism in the Story Collection of Haviyeh

“Haviyeh” is the first collection of short story by Abu-Torab Khosravi. This study is an attempt to grasp the writer’s style and his analysis of the stories, using the structuralism method of Todorof, so that we can analyze the deep structure of the stories after extracting the sequences. The deep structure of this set is based on a battle against time and its representations. Examining the structure of narratives reveals that the writer intends to reflect the deep structure in his style and structure of narrations and provide coordination between the narratives and the deep structure to the extent that is feasible. In simple and mono-dimensional narratives in which sequences are a chain, the writer takes advantage of other elements such as doubt and suspense to reflect the deep structure of battle against time and in cases where the combination of sequences is alternative, he adapts the deep structure to create a sense of remoteness. Only the story of “Haviyeh Akhar” (The Last Haviyeh) is multidimensional and a narrative has been repeated in varieties of ways so that through this repetition the deep structure of combat against time continues in order to eliminate or invalidate it.