دلالة المكان في رواية "كائن مؤجل" لفهد العتيق

الملخص EN

The current paper aims to investigate implications and structures of place in “A Deferred Being” by the Saudi novelist Fahd Al-Ateeq (2019), which is literarily and primarily considered a place-based novel.

The place appears in that novel in a variety of structural forms that, in turn, bear many possible suggestive implications.

Some of those implications appear at the technical level, and hence, have something to do with time and place description, while other implications appear more on the social level, where they are connected to the central character and to the contrastive dualities as well.

Such place-based structures are closely examined from the perspective of a semiotic analytic approach, which, with all its symbolic techniques, seems to be the best methodology in tackling such a narrative text.

The semiotic approach in this study launches from the place-based structure of the text, which technically indicates everything that falls in the novel’s narrative utterance in terms of time, place and description, while taking advantage of the genetic structural method tools by the French philosopher Lucien Goldmann when analyzing both the problematic hero and the contrastive dualities along the novel.

The findings include significant understanding of a total analytical recognition of the novel text, on form and content levels, making clear all of the problematic contrasts, and upgrading the narrative critique to reach the level of the novel text itself, which comprises the entire artistic and social issues.