The Openness of Narrative Writing in Postmodern Narration: Metafiction in the Novels of Ahmed Saadawi

The Arabic novel have witnessed major transformations after the sixties of the last century, and benefited greatly from the postmodern narrative writing styles, by breaking the familiar technical rules, going beyond stereotyping and modeling in its forms adopting postmodern narrative techniques of eliminating the relationships by breaking cohesion and replacing it with the logic of dismantling and dispersal, as well as about the dissolution of the boundaries separating pronouns and the narrators transition from the third person to the first person and vice versa, and denying the illusion of the narrative worlds realism, and the openness of the text to other literary forms and history, and returning to the past and exploring it over and over again, through adopting a set of narrative techniques, the most important of which is the metafiction technique which is characterized by self-reflexivity or self-awareness, through which the narrative works on itself, by retreating from representing the outside world in favor of shaping and questioning its inner world.The nature of the research required dividing it into an introduction, three chapters and a conclusion. The introduction addresses the shift of postmodern narratives towards openness in writing, and the concept of metafiction was also identified. The First Chapter is titled Metafiction and Critical Theorizing the discussion included the narratives preoccupation with itself through commentary and critical theorizing. The Second Chapter is titled Metafiction and working on completing a writing work (the Manuscript), as the novelist completes a writing work for himself or for others which is called the Manuscript and reuses it in his novel. As for the Third Chapter, it is entitled Metafiction and the breach of narrative levels, and it includes narrative breaches by the novelist or the narrator through intruding into his narrative world and interfering directly in the dialogue of the fictional characters or the reader. And finally; the Conclusion comprises the most important findings of the research. And we have included in the reference the sources that we used in preparing this research