Time Formations in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim: An Analytical Study

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

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Sonallah Ibrahim is considered one of the pioneers of the Egyptian Arabic novel in the 1960s. While narrating his fiction, he relied on documentation, citation, and sarcastic language. He is one of the novelists who portrayed reality with extreme frankness and unprecedented audacity, thanks to his culture, erudition, knowledge of foreign languages, and the spirit of patriotism that has been known about him since his youth.

One of the major concerns of Arab and Western critics was the novel's treatment of time. Therefore, the novelist cares about the structure of time in the novel as much as he desires the success of his literary work. The writer is regarded as one of the people most affected by time, and thus time appeared in Sonallah Ibrahim's novels, conveying his sense of history and politics, tying the past to the present, and his vision for the future.

Sonallah relied on narrative paradox of time formations in his novels through flashback and anticipation techniques. Accordingly, the narrative movement becomes disparate between speeding up and slowing down the narration. Therefore, he sometimes resorts to jumping the event forward and adopts the technique of summarizing or omitting in order to speed up the narration, and he may need to draw the reader’s attention to a significant matter, so he works to slow down the movement of the narration through the scene or pause techniques, especially the descriptive pause.

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