Polyphony in Arabic Novels “Yousuf Al Qaeed as a model”

Abstract

This study emphasizes the importance of varying narrative methods in order to achieve the highest level of objectivity and technical neutrality by utilizing the polyphonic novel techniques which moves from a single voice to multiple ones, and from a single perspective to multiple ones in a manner that allows narrators to present changing perspectives reflecting the different non-harmonized stands of reality irrespective of narrators' multiplicity and their variant narration perspectives

Yousuf Al Qaeed attempts in some of his works through utilizing polyphony: Alhidad(mourning),Alharb fe Barri misr(war in Egypt), Man yakaf Kamb David(who fears Camp David),wa qismat Al gurama (and the settlement of opponents) to emphasize the importance of going beyond familiar methods in determining the features of modern novel by enhancing of the forms of narrators' presence, defining the kinds of their functions according to their relation with others and their stands from the narrated , and marking the view, narration, perspective and reading of non closed structural patterns in manner that contributes to reproducing the narrative and customize it according the multiple perspectives.