The Narrative Focus in Elahi Nameh Based on Gerard Genette's Theory

Studying and analyzing narrative focus and narrative methods in fictional works shows skills and abilities which results in recognizing the coherent and precise structure of the text. Thus, recognizing the variety of narration focuses, different forms of narrator’s relationship with focalization and point of view are of most importance. One of the narrative techniques, through which one can assay the writer's abilities in forming the structure and narrative system of the fiction, is Gerard Genette's theory of narrative focus which deals with two concepts of mood and voice of the narration. Assaying narrative focus in Attar’s Elahi Nameh, as a valuable narrative text with its diversity and variety of themes, guides us to not only Attar's art of fictionalization but also richness of ancient Persian narrative texts. Using Gerard Genette’s theory, this research tries to analyze different aspects of focus of view inductively. Also, periodic changes of point of view which come from choosing various narrative focuses, the effects of fiction structure on the fiction and the salience of dialogue element in Elahi Nameh are studied. Finally, we get familiar with various narratives focuses.