The Historical Novel and a Review of History

Abstract

History is nothing but its abstract facts of events, a specific historical fact, both related to events and characters. But this abstract history, when it enters into a basic structural fabric, on which the novel is based, takes on a new form; so that it becomes an artistic element in the fabric of the novel, and then submits to the novelist, who interprets it according to his own vision, worldview and psychological state.

 Although the novel generally presents a fictional history within the framework of objective history, we can look for a discourse that connects the novel with history by sharing basic elements such as: character, Time, Place, event, etc., and sharing them with the story or narrative. From this perspective, in this study, we worked on Miran Abraham's novel (nishmani Sara) in terms of rooting history in it, and we also highlighted the presentation of the historical novel as a result of the blending of history and literature, and through literature the story of the life of the Jews of Sulaymaniyah and their history was told in the novel. This history is not as it was in reality, but it is as the novelist rewrote that history and restored it by exploiting historical reality according to his own vision