Story versus text in O.K. Matsepe's Lešitaph

Abstract

In Rimmon-Kenan's terms story is the sequence of narrated events abstracted from their and reconstructed in their chronological order, while text is the sequence in which the events. A close study of the relationship between story and text in the novel Lešitaph author O.K. Matsepe has disposed of the conventional adherence to chronology in narrative and established a unique and intriguing narrative style, by virtue of which his n reflection of the timeless society he portrays.