


Kopar’s ‘figurative time’ in its entirety. Genette’s another term ‘syllepsis’ resembles The narrative having ‘achronic structure’ disengages its arrangement of events from allĭependence, “even inverse dependence, on the chronological sequence of the story it tells” (84). Temporal connection” and ultimately is “dateless and ageless” (84). An achrony is a form of anachrony “deprived of every Other events “which would require the narrative to define them as being earlier or later” (ibid). According to Genette these ‘unplaceable’ events need not be attached to some Achrony deals with the events “that weĬannot place at all in relation to the events surrounding them” (Genette 83). Genette also coins a term ‘achrony’ which “entails the existence of temporally indefinite narrative sections” (79). Known things in order to understand them” (Lilla Kopar 4). In such narratives events are not related toĮach other in time but connected figuratively and are “based on the natural human desire to compare and relate two events, people or phenomenon to well Present and future where the past becomes a melting pot of culturally different narratives” (Lilla Kopar 4). It suggests an “Intertwined coexistence of past, That patterns are repeated in history creating a coherence between events and people separated in time. Based on the concept of figurative thinking, Lilla Kopar calls this understanding of time as ‘figurative time’ (7) which further stresses Text, and suppressing this relationship by eliminating one of its members is not only sticking to the text, but is quite simply killing it” (Genette 35).Ī deeper reading of Love in the Time of Cholera reveals the temporal basis of the story that incorporates both the linear and the circularĬoncepts of time. The relationship between the narrative’s representation of the story time “is basic to the narrative Story in a past, present and future” (Genette 215). Happens nevertheless, it is almost impossible for me not to locate the story in time with respect to my narrating act since I must necessarily tell the Narrative Discourse: An Essay in the Method (1983) says: “I can very well tell a story without specifying the place where it

Long way in the understanding of the story of the novel Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). It is based on natural human perception of time juxtaposing circular, cyclic and linear time. Lilla Kopar gave a concept of time which heĬalls ‘figurative time’ (7). Time has undergone several interpretations since beginning and has accordingly shaped life and literature. Narratological understanding of time in Garcia’s "Love in the Time of Cholera"(1985)
