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The Novel Writing Techniques in the Novel of (Neigh of Distances (by the Jordanian Novelist: Laila Al-Atrash

May Ahmad Yousef, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan.

 

Abstract

The importance of the novel (The Neigh of Distances) lies in its artistic narrative construction, and its aesthetic language, which is evident in every line of it, and even in every word.

This artistry stems from the techniques adopted by the novelist in order to construct and narrate it.

The most important of these techniques is: the use of the speaker pronoun (first person), as well as the consequent emergence of this strategies and techniques, which had to appear, such as playing with time , cracking its line, and bouncing back, which helped to evoke narrative scenes and link them together in a way that it persuaded the reader , in addition to that is its high artistic constitute which is renewed in each section of the novel.

The relations between the elements of the novel (the narrator, the story, and recipient of the story) reveal a hidden strap which connects them all, and makes the story one cohesive unit.

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