Arabic Literature

The Review and Criticism of the Historical Novel al-Yaum al-Mawʿūd Written by Najib al-Kailani

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Sharafat Karimi

Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Kurdistan

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.212399.611511
Abstract
The historical narrative is a story about the past and its events in a specified time and space. al-Yaum al-Mawʿūdnarrated by Egyptian writer Najib al Kailªni. He wrote this classic historical novel with an epic idea andnational motivation. This novel talks about an era in the history of Egypt during the cruciate period. In this article studied the novel and these elements and how to employ elements of narrative in the structural constructionbecause we show the important technical characteristics of this novel and the flaws in its narrative structure as a traditional historical narrative. The author was interested in the element of dialogue in concise language. He employed the novel art to attain the historical knowledge in a clear manner to record the time of events and characterize the characters and expresses their ideas directly and indirectly according to the analytical method. The relationship between content in the events of the novel and its historical reference is identical. In this novel there are technical problems as a traditional historical narrative. These problems are:the Employment of characters and how to attend the story and also the number of attendance and the loss of a realistic view of some characters and therole of characters in the novel. The author of the historical novel takes away the characters of reality. The author has not used the semantics of discourse in this novel and he has not used the Literary rhetoric methods such as alms and permissible in the prose. In the title of the novel there is no appointment. because the text is not specified today or deduced from it multiple dates as we mentioned in the article. So because of these problems in the narrative structure, the receiver falls into the technical writer's type from time to time.

Keywords

Historical novel
Novel
Najib Al kailani
al-Yaum al-Mawʿūd
Narrative Structure
Deficiencies
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  • Receive Date 18 August 2017
  • Revise Date 25 May 2019
  • Accept Date 13 September 2018

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