The Threshold of the Novel Title in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim: An Analytical Study

Document Type : Brief summaries of Dissertations.

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Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, Aswan University,

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Sonallah Ibrahim is regarded as one of the most prominent novelists of his generation. He is a distinguished writer who was able to express the concerns of the Egyptian reality in a rebellious way, and his novels were linked to his own history, his own biography and the history of the country in general.

Sonallah Ibrahim deals with the novel's title as a textual threshold that serves the creative process itself. Through the title, the recipient can enter the world of the text, and the semantics become clear to him. The title serves as a means of helping the recipient to reveal the ambiguity in the text. Thus, the title is a key from which the recipient proceeds while reading the novel.

Accordingly, the researcher attempts to analyze the threshold of the novel's title of Sonallah Ibrahim by describing the title as a narrative starting point that expresses the thought of the author, which he chooses carefully. It also represents what can be called "the parallel text" or the image of the text. Generally, the title conveys part of the message of the text, and it has a significant role in uncovering the obscurity of the text, illuminating its darkness, and exploring its deep meaning; therefore, we can use it as guidance in defining the message of the novel itself.

Each writer has his own methodology in choosing the title, structure, style, words, and symbols. Some writers prefers to divide their books into titles, giving every chapter a title,

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