TRAGIČNO U ROMANU GAVRANOVO PAMĆENJE AL-HATTABA AL-MAZRUIJA
TRAGIC IN THE NOVEL THE RAVEN’S MEMORY OF AL-HATTAB-MAZRUI

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents elements of the tragic in the novel of the Omani writer al-Hattab al-Mazrui (al-Haṭṭāb al-Mazrū‘ī) under the title The Raven’s Memory (Ḏākira alkūrfīda). The novel is approached through various theoretical assumptions liable to deep understanding of the tragic within al-Mazrui’s narrative. Furthermore, the novel is contextualized within Omani’s novelistic tradition. The paper deals with the tragic character of the main character Marzuk, his tragic mistake, the inability to resolve the conflict. All this eventually turns into a struggle against his own memory, or, against the “curse of not forgetting”. It analyzes how tragic error, forbidden love, initiates the conflict between Marzuk and Ibn Mabruk, as well as how this conflict of two “personal justice” represents the conflict between Marzuk, as an individual who wants to be an independent person, and the ritualized relationships in the society behind which Ibn Mabruk is hiding.

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