the construction of the narrative place in the two novels (The Unemployed - Hysterical Days)

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1 faculty of arts Arabic Department – Aswan University

2 Department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, South Valley University

3 Aswan University - Faculty of Arts - Department of Arabic Language - Aswan

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The place is considered the main element in building the narrative component of any fictional work, as it is the field that contains the actions, due to its importance it has received the attention of researchers and critics through the study of its styles and presentation techniques, including the contents, ideas, and its relationships with the rest of the narrative elements.

The actions of the first novel “The Unemployed,” is about the experience of the young man (Muhammad Al-Zabbal) working and stability in Dubai through the writer monitoring the moment he entered Dubai until his return to Egypt, sometimes monitoring and analyzing the social and political conditions of the Egyptians and the hopes and ambitions of the characters through the suffering of the young man (Muhammad Al-Zabbal) as a result of his suffering is an artistic dissection of an important and distinctive period in Egypt’s history. The time of the novel extended from the middle of the last century to the present across a spatial space.

As for the novel (Hysterical Days), its actions take place between Cairo and Dubai. The recipient is accompanied by a comparison between the two cities through the characters (Nabil Al-Banna and Nsma Farid) in their quest to build a new place with dreams and hopes that make them forget the weight of the past. The research seeks to study the construction of the narrative place in the two novels (The Unemployed - Hysterical Days). )

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