Narration between Retrieval and Anticipation in Eighty Years Waiting for Death

Abstract

The novelist employs time in all its formations. So he acts, and intervenes in the system of arranging the events of the story when he transfers them to his fictional work, and thus cancels the sequence and arrangement that the facts were subjected to in the story, and in this behavior he intends to use the temporal paradoxes resulting from breaking the linear course of events, which are two techniques: retrieval and anticipation.

       Hence, this study entitled “Narration between Retrieval and Anticipation” in the novel (Eighty Years Waiting for Death) by the Saudi writer Abdul Majeed Al-Fayyad seeks to reveal the temporal structure through the techniques of retrieval and anticipation, with the aim of answering the research problem, which lies in the following two questions:

What are the modern techniques used by the writer in the novel?

How did the writer employ the technique of temporal paradoxes in this novel?

  To achieve the goal of the research, the study relied on the descriptive analytical approach based on induction and analysis in describing the temporal structure in the

selected.