Arabic Literature

An Analysis of the Propositions of Magical Realism in Hassan Kamal's Novel "The Al-Marhoum"

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Malek Abdi 1
Mohammad Reza Shirkhani 1
Sayyedeh Zaynab Faghih 2

1 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Ilam University/Faculty of Literature and Humanities Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

2 Arabic Teacher in Ahwaz Schools, Ahwaz, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.351451.612611
Abstract
Realism means observing the realities of life as they are. The realists believed that "the reality presented in Romanticism is fleeting; Because they portray life as more adventurous and exaggerated than reality. This is while the realists show the ordinary life of people as it is and the reader acknowledges its truth ”(Shamisa, 1391: 78-77). A realist is an external or objective school in which the author does not express his feelings and emotions in the story. He sought to discover the facts so that the reader by reading the work to reach the conclusion that he has read and understood the reality (Hosseini, 1388: 159). Magical realism is a style in which unusual and unnatural phenomena occur and the writers combine ordinary and magical events without any justification and create a story. Hassan Kamal is one of the contemporary Egyptian writers who wrote the story of the "deceased" from the point of view of magical realism, in which he shows the audience strange and surreal events; Where a person named the deceased plots to infiltrate other corpses and complete the flow of unfulfilled deeds and aspirations. The novel "Almarhum" by Hassan Kamal is about two characters, one of whom is related to the world of the dead and in his opinion has a mission from God, and the second character is a writer and a doctor and tries to be the narrator of this person's life.

Keywords

Magical realism
Kamal Hasan
novel "The almarhum
Arabic literature
reality and fantasy
Subjects

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  • Receive Date 21 November 2022
  • Revise Date 06 February 2023
  • Accept Date 08 February 2023

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