A Structuralist Reading of the Story of Crows by Nader Ebrahimi

Greimas, a structuralist and semiology theoretician, made an attempt to reach the inner layers of a text by going through the surface and the structure of the text. He wanted to find the hidden structure influential in the production of meaning. In fact, a writer, by creating a special kind of narration and narrator in his/her story, produces a chain–like series of sender/ message/ receiver) to present coherent structure for a story. The aim of this paper is to analyze "Crows", one of the best stories of Nader Ebrahimi by using narrative analysis (permanent and non–permanent process) and Actantial Model of Greimas. In this way with the help of narratology the structure and internal relationships of signs of the text, the likns between the characters are clarified.