Polyphony in the novel Sharafat Bahr al-Shamal wawasini al-Araj

Section: Arabic language
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
491-508

Abstract

The phenomenon of vocal and stylistic pluralism is one of the modern concepts that entered the Arabic novel, and was adopted by contemporary novelists, to embody their ideas in a free form that simulates a kind of democratic narration, and to give free rein to each character, to embody their style and presence in the world of the novel. This is considered a qualitative leap in the life of the novelists creativity, which carries a lot of realism in the literary discourse, whereby each character presents with his tongue and his social, individual and psychological characteristics, expressing his situation in his dialect, which creates a diversity of voices within the novel whose characters points of view differ in expressing the goals they seek. to reach it, In order for the novel to become close to the language of daily social life, with the diverse voices of its characters that reflect the diversity of reality. This is exactly what the writer "Wasini Al-Araj" went to in his novel "Balconies of the North Sea", in which he resorted to the concept of pluralism at the level of narrative structures in which he mixed the daily real with the mythical and imaginary, with the tongues of characters he employed for various purposes in his mixture of poetic fiction, where home and exile are. , love and strife, suffering and coping; To bring together in his fictional discourse the Algerian I and the European one in a societal utilization of the story, in which the characters were the daughter of their societies. This was shown by the writer who simulated the reality with the tongue of his characters and their dialects, so the polyphony came close to the realism of the fictional event.Accordingly; This research opens the door to a mixture study of a modern novel, in which there are many voices and linguistic styles, to bring it out with a new narrative vision. From it with different linguistic concepts acquired from its world and society, to be in front of an explanation of the concepts of hybridization and stylization used in "Balconies of the North Sea", to analyze the vision of the multiple sound system as well as the stylistic structures of each voice within the novel, relying on the narrative approach and the stylistic approach, to be guided to achieve the goals and objectives of the study.It remains for us to say that in our research experiment, this is a new adventure in the depths of a stylistic environment whose mainstay is the writer's language in the first place, and how to employ different voices in constructing the novel "Balconies of the North Sea".

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Rajab, S., & سروى. (2025). Polyphony in the novel Sharafat Bahr al-Shamal wawasini al-Araj. Journal of Education for the Humanities, 4(16), 491–508. https://doi.org/10.33899/jeh.2024.184699