The problematic hero in Abdullah Naji novel the mountain outcast

Abstract

This study deals with the problematic hero in the novel "The Outcast of the Mountain" from the narrator's point of view. This theme targeted its impact on the narrative discourse, social, religious and intellectual contexts, and also targeted the artistic dimensions that formed the narrative structure in the novel. The study adopts the generative structural approach, and the interaction between the hero and the world surrounding him necessitates the use of this approach; because it is linked to the structures that are generated within this social and intellectual fabric in the novel, which leads to conflict as a result of the existence of a difference in the nature of the hero's infrastructure, which directly affects the superstructure associated with the world. The study reveals many aspects of the problematic hero who struggles with life. Sometimes we find him in the novel as a sacred hero due to the study structure's association with the holy place (Mecca), and in another image we find him as the hero extending in his cultural flock that imitates reality, and another hero laden with the Sufi, faithful spirit, and we also find him outside all these images; to mature in his emotional context and become a hero in love. The last image of this hero is manifested in the alienation and cruelty that the hero of the novel endures as he walks through this life. The study derives its importance from the multiplicity of faces and images of the heroes in the novel, as Mecca, the incubator of all these events, undergoes a radical transformation in its difference and contradiction, in its closeness and distance, in its alienation and fragmentation. The study also reveals the mechanisms of human knowledge associated with the internal structure of the novel.