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قبض زماں میں راوی کی تبدیلی اور تصور زماں

Changing of narrator and concept of time in Qabz-e-Zamaan

Abstract

"In this global era, A literary piece of art propagates around the globe immediately after its publishing in any corner of the world. This is due to speedy translation and quick publishing with the use of modern gadgets. So the techniques used in the famous literary work anywhere in the world recognized and replicated elsewhere. This phenomenon shoes its influences on modern Urdu literature. Particularly Urdu fiction writers of twenty first century made use of the universal style's techniques in their writings. The best example of this phenomenon in modern Urdu novel is Qabz-e zaman(2014) by Shamsurrahman Faruqi(1935-). In this research article I infer that he used modern narrative techniques in his novel Qabz-e zaman from which magic realism is more prominent and exclusive. Shamsurrahman Faruqi is found of great lost GANAGA JAMNI civilization of Mughal sultanate of Dehli(1526-1857). Technically it is very necessary that to depict the language and cultural development the narrator must be changed to show the long span of history of sub continent. So he looks to a Sufism's term 'Qabz-e zaman', which can be used as a tool in magic realism technique. His narrator Gul Muhammad travels in different era of sub continent history, due to Sufism term 'Qabz-e zaman'. He also used the old folk lore, oral literature and old text in this novel as well. These elements are very essential for the magic realistic technique in the fiction.

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