Miraculous Narrative Techniques in Osama Al-Musallam's Novel "Violet Glow"

Abstract

The miracle occupied most of the critics as it was the focus of their attention until it was first studied by the French philosopher Todorov in his book An Introduction to Miraculous Literature, which he sees as the attendant hesitation of an object that knows only the usual and customary natural laws at a time when it encounters supernatural events, which need to be interpreted and scrutinized, as it throws its owner.

Thus, this study aims to highlight miraculousness, and to look for its manifestations in the elements of the narrative structure. She addressed miraculous literature, speaking in her first chapter about what it is by explaining its role in literature in general, moving on to its historical background and early upbringing, then talking about its importance that has occupied most critics, and finally mentioning the miraculous conditions that must be met in the literary text in order to prepare a miraculous literary text and the relationship of miraculous characters to each other. The second chapter dealt with miraculous narration by analysing its techniques in Osama al-Muslim's novel "The Glow of Violet," explaining the time and place in the novel, the places of imagination and suspense, describing the novel's characters and strange events, and finally explaining the language used in the novel, and the role of miraculous narration in it. The research has concluded many results, including: That the miraculous novel is no longer limited to talking about jinn, magic and goblins, but has become a human feeling in general, whether he enjoys confusion and hesitation or contradiction in any situation, in his life.