بين الأدب والمرض العصبي: الرواية العصبية أنموذجا

Abstract EN

This study aims to investigate the interdisciplinarity in the novel by capturing the intersections of literature with neurological disease in the novel.

three models of novels that were titled with a neurological disease were selected for this study: (autism) by Rami Ahmed, and (Alzheimer) by Ghazi al-Qusaibi, and (the man who counted his wife a hat) by Oliver Sacks.

the first two novels are Arabic whereas the third one is western.

as for the study method, it is the analytical method, and from what the study concluded, we can claim that the emergence of the nervous novel in the West-first-was the reason for the superiority of the western model over the two Arab models in directing this type of narration to the interdisciplinarity.

the analytical reading also revealed that the authors of the two Arabic novels had multiple goals in writing the novel.

the writer's goals tend to address social or political aspects, and are not limited to describing the neurological disease.

the study also concluded that Sachs' novel is worthy of a type of interdisciplinary study, because it was concerned with conveying the details of the disease-describing the patient's condition, what appeared from him, and his reaction to the symptoms that occur to him-in an interesting narrative form, by merging two sciences; to give a third science, which is a mixture between them that bears their characteristics.

the story here is no longer just a kind of entertainment, nor a dry medical report.

rather, it has become, with the information it contains, a scientific source for neurological disease and an interesting literary genre.

perhaps what justified this classification is that its writer is a doctor and he was able to combine his scientific experience with his literary talent.