شعرية المكان وتشكلات اللغة" قراءة في ملحمة الحرافيش لنجيب محفوظ"

Abstract

There is no need to discuss that Najyeb Mahfouz is not just a great novelist but a great poet as well. It is true that he never published an anthology but his poetic style is clear and easy to be found within his novels. From this view point this paper aimed to find out the poetic style in his big novel " Al Harafysh`s Epic". The paper started with defining the concept "poetic", the way of using "place" in literature and the way of using "time" in literature too. Then it discussed the poetic style at that novel under these headlines: First: the poetic of text structure (the relation between this novel`s structure as an epic with the traditional classic old epics in Greek literature. This novel consists of 10 stories started with the main character "Ashour Al Najy" that succeed to come from a very low standard as a child that never knew his real parents to be the strongest person in the area and to run it with justice and belief. After his death, the whole new generation from his family couldn’t be like him until the last story with last grandson "shams Al deen". The structure depended on the mysterious time that always came from the sound of Parisian odes. Mixing the real time with Second: the poetic of opposite couples (such as opposing words: epic/very poor and low social level people as in the title for example) Third: the poetic of intensification (every story has been divided into chapters, the beginning of each chapter was always written with a poetic style that look like a poem.) Fourth: the poetic of Parisian odes (the novel depended on the mysterious atmosphere that the Parisian sound brings every time we read that odes in specific chapter, this paper followed these odes and found out its relation with the main characters in every novel and its relation with the mean ideas that the text focus to make the reader aware of like; life/ death, reality/ dream, justice/ injustice...etc. Fifth: the poetic of dreams (dreams always had relation with looking for justice in the whole text, from other side; dreams looked like the shadows of meaning for some big events before it happened.)