THE LANGUAGE AND ITS AESTHETICS IN THE ARABIC “BESTSELLER” NOVEL Cover Image

اللغة وجمالياتها في الرواية العربية الرائجة
THE LANGUAGE AND ITS AESTHETICS IN THE ARABIC “BESTSELLER” NOVEL

Author(s): Sherief Heteta Elsafy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Descriptive linguistics, Stylistics
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Language; Aesthetics; Arabic; Arabic Novel; Bestseller;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims mainly to analyze four models of the Arabic novel that can be described as “Bestseller”. These novels have been selected according to two specific criteria, achieving the popularity and representing the linguistic state in the Arab world. The article does not discuss the theoretical problematics related to the Bestseller novel, but it only deals with two axes; the first focuses on the critical problematic which is about the concept of “Bestseller Novel” and the relationship between language and popular text. The second traces the aesthetics of the four studied novels. The article treats with four novels belongs to the big domains of the Arab world: the Maghreb, Al-Sham, Gulf , Egypt. It analyzes Ahlam Mostaghanmi’s novel Ḏākiratu lǧasad 1993, the Syrian writer Moustafa Khalifa’s al-Qawqa‘a 2008, the Saudi writer Athear Al-Nashmy’s ’Aḥbabtuka ’akṯar mimmā yanbaġī 2009, and the last novel is Mawsimu ṣaydi l-ġizlān 2017 by the Egyptian writer Ahmed Morad.

  • Issue Year: XX/2020
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 177-189
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Arabic