An Internal Feud Novel That Lebanon Cıvıl War Determined Its Narrative Technique: Kevâbısu Beyrût (Beyrut’s Nightmairs) Cover Image

Anlatım Tekniğini Lübnan İç Savaşının Belirlediği Bir İç Hesaplaşma Romanı: Kevâbîsu Beyrût (Beyrut Kabusları)
An Internal Feud Novel That Lebanon Cıvıl War Determined Its Narrative Technique: Kevâbısu Beyrût (Beyrut’s Nightmairs)

Author(s): Adnan Arslan
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Theology and Religion
Published by: Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi
Keywords: Modern Arap novel;Ghade al-Sammân;Kavâbisu Beyrut;Lebanon civil war;

Summary/Abstract: One of the main features that distinguish modern novel from traditional one is the use of new narrative techniques such as monologue, flow of consciousness, leitmotiv and intertextuality. These techniques relate to new approaches that take shape in formal elements such as time, characters and event patterns that make up the modern novel. Which expression technique is used in the work is often related to the form and content of the novel. This research examines the Kevâbîsu Beyrût, which uses modern and post modern expression techniques in the Arab novels of the last century, in the context of the content of the work and reveals the appropriateness of the techniques used for the purpose of the work. The authors of the novel, autobiographical, tried to convey the feelings of a civil war in many ways, and remained in the midst of conflicts. The techniques that came to the forefront in his narration have added aesthetic value to the composition of the narration and it has become one of the famous Arab novels. The introduction part of the work consists of the factors that prepared the ground for the civil war that took place in Lebanon between 1975 and 1990, the first chapter, the work of writer Gâde es-Semman, the third chapter; Kevâbîsu will investigate the relation between the narrative techniques of the novel Beirut and the factors leading to the writing of the work.

  • Issue Year: 4/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 283-303
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Turkish