La durée in the structure of the story of “Khalil al-Kafir in light of the theory of Gérard Genette

Time is one of the most important narrative elements that are employed within the narrative construction. Accordingly, literary theorists made a distinction between the time of discourse and the time of the story and the ability of fictional time to move between the past and the future and blowing up the wall between dream and reality. In addition, the techniques used highlight the beauty inherent in the context of the text, where the French theorist Genette drew a map that reveals to us the features of chronological paradoxes, which are manifested in arrangement, absorption and frequency. Our research is a structural study that focused on employment forms and incentives. La durée in the structure of the story of “KhalilalKafir” in light of the theory of Genette. One of the results of this research is to break the monotony of chronological time with narrative time techniques and accelerate the narration at the beginning of the story with the use of the summary to fill the gaps in the text or introduce the characters in the middle of the story, the use of the scene prevailed over other techniques. At the end of the story, the narrator speeds up the narration of events, staffing the deletion with the summary. There was a great deal of interest in dialogue and monologue. But the declared deletion exceeded the implicit deletion space. The descriptive pauses were not all adornments to the narration rest without an aesthetic role, but rather the most explanatory ones had symbolic dimensions.