Ahmad Reza Saedi
Abstract
New techniques of storytelling are applied in the novel "Ma Tabaqqa Lakom" written by Ghassan Kanafani, contemporary Palestinian poet and novelist. It is one of the first modern novels ...
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New techniques of storytelling are applied in the novel "Ma Tabaqqa Lakom" written by Ghassan Kanafani, contemporary Palestinian poet and novelist. It is one of the first modern novels of Arabic fiction which has played a considerable role in the innovation and flourish of Arabic fiction. Since the technique of stream of consciousness is used in this novel; and as a result of interruption of time in this kind of fiction, the story is narrated in different scenes, by various narrators, and from several points of view; it is expected that the dominant traditional form of point of view and narrator, in contrast with classical fiction, be in a constant fluctuation in this novel. Therefore, this study attempts to examine narrator and the degree of canonization, among elements of fiction, according to the views of some of structuralist critics such as Gerard Genette and Todorov. In this paper, stream of consciousness and narrator, different kinds of narrator and point of view are explained briefly. Then, it uses these elements in order to challenge the novel.
