The dual narrative structure in the novel Eastern Mediterranean by Abdel Rahman Munif

Abstract

The novelist (Abdul Rahman Munif) is considered one of the novelists who was interested in prison literature, and the characters who suffered from political prisons in the Arab countries. The novel (Eastern Mediterranean), which was published in 1975 AD, is the first novel that was focused in this theme, and it has an artistic specificity, as well as objective specificity which represents a qualitative change in the novel literature.

At the level of style, its structure is based on the (stream of consciousness) context, as we will see, but it seemed close to the meta-narrative structure of the novel, this type of structure that was common in (post-modern) novels, and the Eastern Mediterranean novel seems early in this narrative tendency that Its appearance in Arabic narratives and Arabic novels was delayed for more than two decades, and The research works here to explain the combination between the (stream of consciousness) technique on the one hand, and the (meta-narrative) technique on the other, At the different levels of narrative elements, such as event, place, time, and character.