التشكيل المكاني في رواية رجال في الشمس

الملخص EN

The place considered one of the most important elements in narratives in general, and the influence of the place on the rest of the narrative elements, such as time, characters, and events, cannot be neglected.

Therefore, modern literary critical studies pay great attention to the study of place as a main and active element in literary work; since it is an element that is impossible to imagine fictional work without.

This research attempts to study the place as an essential element of the narration in Ghassan Kanafani's novel “Men in the Sun”; seeking to achieve several objectives such as revealing the essence of the place in the novel, besides determining the relationship of the place with other narrative elements, and revealing the influence of place in the novel, Moreover, studying the characteristics of the place in the novel according to the basic divisions of the place: (the closed place - the open place / the home place - the hostile place).