무함마드 알비사띠 단편소설의 서술 기법 - 「약한 빛은 아무 것도 드러내지 않는다」를 중심으로
Narrative Techniques of Muhammad al-Bisati's Short Story - With Reference to A Dim Light Reveals Nothing
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The paper surveys narrative techniques as shown in Muhammad al-Bisati's short story. Along with his fellows of the Sixties Generation writers in Egypt, al-Bisati endeavored after appropriate techniques that may reflect the social and political changes, and express the spirit of his times properly. His short story A Dim Light Reveals Nothing can be regarded as an exemplary work that witnesses the author's continuous efforts. The short story is about a small village The Revolution, a troop of soldiers, has come to. The people of the village experience an unprecedented day with the soldiers who utterly refrain from communication. The paper finds that the author, while narrating the scenes, adroitly utilizes metaphor and metonymy, inducing the reader to participate positively in the narrative. The author attempted to represent the places and the characters through metaphorical and metonymic description, and finally projected an image of a panopticon on the village captured by The Revolution. However, the author posed -or seemed to do so- a question; who is the real prisoner? It was ironical that The Revolution/watchers were in fact the watched, as they were surrounded by the people, and could move only in the darkness like the criminals. The paper concludes that the literary work is a political discourse in the first place, and is at the same time an allegory of the power and the powerful. The work is narrated alternatively by the first person of a little boy, and the third person of a grown-up, that renders the irony of the panopticon more lively and vivid.
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The paper surveys narrative techniques as shown in Muhammad al-Bisati's short story. Along with his fellows of the Sixties Generation writers in Egypt, al-Bisati endeavored after appropriate techniques that may reflect the social and political changes, and express the spirit of his times properly. His short story A Dim Light Reveals Nothing can be regarded as an exemplary work that witnesses the author's continuous efforts. The short story is about a small village The Revolution, a troop of soldiers, has come to. The people of the village experience an unprecedented day with the soldiers who utterly refrain from communication. The paper finds that the author, while narrating the scenes, adroitly utilizes metaphor and metonymy, inducing the reader to participate positively in the narrative. The author attempted to represent the places and the characters through metaphorical and metonymic description, and finally projected an image of a panopticon on the village captured by The Revolution. However, the author posed -or seemed to do so- a question; who is the real prisoner? It was ironical that The Revolution/watchers were in fact the watched, as they were surrounded by the people, and could move only in the darkness like the criminals. The paper concludes that the literary work is a political discourse in the first place, and is at the same time an allegory of the power and the powerful. The work is narrated alternatively by the first person of a little boy, and the third person of a grown-up, that renders the irony of the panopticon more lively and vivid.
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