The structure of the narrative discourse in the novel Adam’s Dust By Talib Abbas Al-Zahir A model

Abstract

       The novel is considered one of the most important literary genres, despite its late appearance, but it was distinctive in the twentieth century and distinguished from all other literary genres, as it contains a world in which time, place, events, and characters interact, and it is difficult to isolate one of them from the other.

       The study of narrative text has begun to claim new ways to reveal the structure of internal texts, especially with the emergence of contemporary critical approaches and the development and emergence of modern narrative theories. For this reason, we decided to address the structure of narrative discourse according to Talib Abbas Zahir, because he is one of the most prominent contemporary Karbalai novelists who have immortalized their names in the cultural and literary community and because he was able to To shed light and the narrator created a modern narrative vision that differs from the traditional one, carrying controversy in a way that cannot be overlooked, and showing that the temporal paradoxes took place in the events of the novel in approximately two decades (the eighties and nineties) of the last century, in which events that took place in Iraq were mentioned, which gave the novel a historical dimension, and recall was an element. Main in the novel, noting that anticipation was present but rarely. The study also found that the narrative movement. The novel carries a balance between the speed of the narrative and the slowness of the narrative. The narrator began to stop and describe, which made the reader feel somewhat bored, then he moved on to presenting the events briefly. The study concluded that the restriction Place (the morgue) Making the main place of the novel the morgue, and the idea of a closed place will give boundaries to the events and restrictions to the characters. The study found that the temporal structure and the spatial structure played a creative role in the novel Adam’s Dust. The study showed that the characters in the novel Adam’s Dust were not many, and the static nature prevailed in it. In terms of the dynamic nature, the characters in the discourse were influenced by the narrative style. You find news and descriptive events more than interactive ones. However, this did not prejudice the performance of the characters in the narrative discourse. Rather, they were proportional to the drama of the story. However, the writer took a new step in the structure of the characters by giving the role to the appearance of non-personal characters. Humans, such as the gecko, the female spider, the white insect, and the old dog. Then he drew a reflection of the hero and made the latter a speaking character, and this is a new imprint in the world of the novel.