Naser Jaberi

Time is a principal element in narrative that has been considered by many of narratologists in recent decades, such as Gerard Genette, one of the most important theorists in this field, who played a chief role in the formation of narrative time theory. He classified the time of narrative in three parts: Order, Duration and Frequency. Time in narrative is different from normal time in real life. Narrative time has wide demotions and could flow in the way different from real life , as well as its acceleration and deceleration, so in each narrative, acceleration or deceleration and order or disorder is in a close connection with the meaning of the story and it could help us to gain a better understanding of the text. Here, we will study “time narrative” in the basis of Genette ‘s theory, in two war short story collections: “Ice Man” by Shirin Eshaghi and “Smile behind the window” by Hossein Abbaszadeh. The results show that Shirin Eshaghi has used more anachrony techniques than other author. In the “duration” field, both of them have used all types of acceleration and deceleration. But results also show that “Ice Man” has constant acceleration and “Smile behind window” has acceleration. There are various types of frequencies in both collections although the most used techniaue is single frequency.