Flashes of temporal construction in Nagib Mahfouz's (New Cairo)

Abstract

(Time) represents one of the most important elements of the narration in the novel, as it plays a prominent role in the process of the story and linking events and facts that occur in the narrative process, so the research came in (New Cairo) novel by Nagib Mahfouz to reveal the manipulation of the novelist with the element of time in building the events of the novel as It disturbs the sequence of events in time and its overlap in many cases, it may refer to the past and list previous events and sometimes return events to a recent or distant past, and that is by means of memory, which is the tool of recovery and its means. It has become clear that the element of time in building the events of the novel has the utmost importance in giving aesthetic work by stirring up the component of suspense to the reader.