الحضور الأسطوري في رواية السد لمحمود المسعدي

الملخص EN

Mahmoud Massaadi is one of those who have been tempted by myths, he has used them in several of his novels, since his beginnings, which allows us to place him among the pioneers who resorted to myths, not only among Tunisian novelists , but also among Arab novelists.

His novel "the dam" is considered the most mature Tunisian novel, which has used the myth with success and exposed the other aspect of the culture of Massaadi which was forged thanks to the influence of foreign literatures and ancient myths and its Arab culture which was the starting point in the knowledge of the culture of the other and its literature.

He built the events of the novel on the idea of genesis, he gave his hero mythological traits and dimensions, whether at the level of acts or at the level of qualities, he also injected other mythological characters from another world.

But what are these characteristics? and where is the myth located? it is at the level of events or personalities.