تشكيل الحارة في روايات نجيب محفوظ : رواية (ملحمة الحرافيش)‎ أُنموذجا : دراسة وصفية تحليلية

Abstract EN

This research paper seeks to explore the features of the portrayal of neighborhood in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel (Malhamat Al-Harafish).

No doubt that the novel has brilliantly drawn the image of Egyptian neighborhood with all its indications and symbols.

The paper assumes that the ‘quarter’ in this novel forms a whole world within Mahfouz’s vision for the neighborhood and hence it is understood in terms of its position on the real world by the way of decoding its symbols and connotations.

Naguib Mahfouz has developed his own vision of the neighborhood through a combination of constructions and textures reflected as: neighborhood as an incubator for the epic, construction of place in the novel, portrayal of man, time and vocabularies of imagination in the alley.

These are the components of the features of the alley imagined by Naguib Mahfouz which he tried to fill with his symbols, ideas and visions.

These are also the domains which allowed him to easily jump through in limitless spaces of places, times, events and behaviors of the characters without restrictions of fact and fiction, and their boundaries; it allowed him to roam freely between them without smashing the boundaries between the real and imagined worlds.