알라 알디브 『레몬 꽃』의 회고 서술에 관한 연구

Abstract

The paper aims at surveying the aspects of flashback or analepsis as shown in Egyptian writer Alaa al-Dib’s novel Zahr al-Laymun(Lemon Blossom). The novel consists of the protagonist Abd al-Khaliq al-Masiri’s weekend trip from Suez to Cairo where his family and friends live. The trip is primarily a spatial transfer, but the author attempts to expand the dimension of narration in order to contain time-related experiences of the past. The novel’s flashback characterizes three main groups; the protagonist’s family and neighbors, his comrades in the association and prison, and his lover and wife Muna al-Misri. The flashback does not present the past events in a consecutive way. On the contrary, reversed sequences are frequently observed. Nevertheless the events are not so hard to understand, because the novel’s language is in common literary style. The ups and downs of the flashbacked events bear a close parallel to the deteriorating social conditions of Egypt in the 1970s. The novel does not offer any brand new narrative technique, but succeeds in reflecting the Egyptian intellectual class’s growing alienation from the society