The analysis of a temporal structure in "Alavi's her eyes novel"

Temporal Structure is a theory about the formation of the story structure with regard to the time frame. The cause and effect relations between the events in Bozorg Alavi’s novel, Her Eyes, are made by means of time. The disturbance of the conventional time sequences has caused this novel to start from the middle; frequent flash backs to the past in Farangis’s memories have made a non-linear, circular time frame in the novel. Every event is like a circle that begins from one point (the present time and physical environment; Farangis’s room) and returns to the starting point (the preset time) right after narrating an advanture (retuning to the past). So, Alavi is not complying with the conventions of story time structure. This paper aims at analyzing the temporal structure (the non-linear time frame) in Her Eyes. Moreover, it is an attempt to map the temporal structure theory onto the novel as a genre.