Narrative Structure And Interpretation Models In Hoda Barakat's "Night Mail" Novel

Abstract

The creative act in its various literary genres, primarily the novel, provided a fertile ground for study, approach and analysis. We selected HodaBarakat's “Night Mail” novel as it includes a critical debate because of its problematic narrative structure. This novel has a distinctive form. It is presented in the form of five letters, which made the writing horizon in it wider and wider.

Our research focuses on the narrative structure and the interpretation systems of events, space, time, and characters. Our study also aims at investigating this narrative text novelistic format and structure.

The novelistic text narrative structures reveal the relationships, the harmonious units and criteria that govern them internally without looking at the contexts outside the text, and their relationship to it. In addition, we have adopted a structural approach to study the text  narrative structure.

We conclude that  “Bareedal-Lail” (The Night Mail) reveals deep connotations and meanings of the novel narrative structure. This is through the interpretation systems that open up to the reader and the critic the horizon of reinterpreting the text from a broader perspective.