We-Narrator of "Khane Roshanan" by Golshiri:A Causative Analysis

According to some theories of narratology, occasionally the narrator and the viewer of fictional events may differ. Such theories coupled with fictions that have unconventional structures and are structurally rhetoric-oriented, makes the analysis of narrative increasingly intricate. "Khane Roshanan" from the collection of stories of the Nimeye Tarike Mah [The Dark Side of the Moon] by Houshang Golshiri is one of such stories. The narration of this story, with a structure based on the first-person plural point of view, along with the disruption of the chronological order and the ambiguities that exist in the process of understanding the narratorchr('39')s identity, has made it difficult to identify narrators. Relying on the point of view of this story, this paper tried to examine the unique characteristics of narrators, which include the flow of awareness. Upon analysis it became apparent that the selection of the collective narrator has resulted in retaining the structural coherence of the story by keeping the narrative language coherent, despite the narratorchr('39')s unbalanced awareness in different parts of the narration.