The Novel from Narrative pleasure to the Dominance of Discourse, A critical reading of the Novel (Al-Mulhid) by Abdel Baqi Youssef

The novel is an expansive textual space and an extended imaginative world. It is the literary genre most capable of representing and embodying ideology, and because it is so, it has participated in an act in shaping awareness and molding the ideas. Therefore, because of the Art tools and seductiveness that are available to it, it lures the reader and forces him to accept the ideas that it presents. In other words: There are novels that exercise authority (linguistic and visual) over their readers to mislead their thoughts, with narratives that are carefully composed of fiction and reality.The importance of this study comes from the fact that it reveals to those interested in correcting ideas and enlightening minds, the tricks of others in creating false awareness, and this is only possible by achieving cognitive criticism, which ensures that those interested are informed of the process of language adaptation by novel writers, leading to power and hegemony. The study takes the novel (Al-Mulhid) by (Abdul Baqi Youssef) as a way to reveal what is hidden and expose the implied meaning, by demonstrating the artistic and linguistic mechanisms of seduction and persuasion that the novel intended to win over the reader and mislead his awareness, whether regarding issues of atheism or other intellectual issues, as well as revealing the ideologies that stand Behind the speech, there is a hidden authority behind any narrative achievement, including this novel.