الواقعيّة في روايات بهاء طاهر : دراسة وصفيّة تحليليّة
This study examines realism’s themes in the novels of Bahaa Taher, an Egyptian novelist. Therefore, the researcher seeks to study the realism’s themes in characterization, author’s intertwining of depicting reality and criticizing it via the portrayal of social, political and belief events (religiou...
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| Summary: | This study examines realism’s themes in the novels of Bahaa Taher, an Egyptian novelist. Therefore, the researcher seeks to study the realism’s themes in characterization, author’s intertwining of depicting reality and criticizing it via the portrayal of social, political and belief events (religious and social) that disturb his society, and analyzes the extent of the novelist’s narrative mastery and deployment of its artistic techniques in imparting realist dimension to the novels. On the part of scientific method, the study uses descriptive analytical method, and on the part of critical method, the study relies on the social approach with the help of a software program called: ATLAS ti by using its two procedural steps: Open Coding and Analytical Coding in analyzing characters and events and narrative deployment. The discussed novels are six, they are: “East of Palms”, “Dhoha Said”, “My Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery”, “Love in Exile”, “Spot of Light” and “Sunset Oasis”. Lastly, the study has reached some conclusions, the most important of which are: The portrayal of characters in the novels studied signifies the writer’s inclination towards critical realism. It is discovered that realism’s themes which the novels draw their raw materials from, reflect the inner psychological dimension of the protagonists. And the depiction of their inner psychological dimension expresses the exacerbation of alienation inside their native country and amidst their family first, and second, outside their country, far away from their kinsmen and family. The extent of the writer’s ability to intertwine depicting reality and criticizing it is closely observed in the portrayal of events. This is done through detailed depiction of events with the use of dramatic scenes that evoke disgust in the reader. It is also established that the event of death – physical, whether normal or as a result of murder or suicide, and spiritual as a result of loss of spiritual values – which has so many references in the novels, emphasizes the presence of discontinuity of the meaning of human justice from realization. The study clarifies the extent of the novelist’s narrative mastery and deployment of narrative techniques in conferring realist dimension to the novels; this is done through the deployment of three styles of narration, four narrative techniques and dialogue. The study also demonstrates how the component of narrative is deployed to discover the self and spiritual suffering of the protagonist who suffers from internal defeat. Based on the style of self-narration, (or what is widely known as first-person narration), narrative techniques, dialogue and monologue, the study reveals that the author exhibits the ability to depict his protagonists’ spiritual worries, self-pains, frustrations and refraction of their dreams. Furthermore, the study reveals that the novelist’s awareness and deployment of these literary components for writing the structure of the narrative text are what shape realism in his novels. |
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