البنية الفنية في الرواية الماليزية “في إطار العالم الثاني” لعزيزي الحاج عبد الله : دراسة تحليلية

Abstract EN

This study undertakes the aesthetical structure in the novel “Mandala Dunia Kedua” by a Malaysian writer Azizi Haji Abdullah that aims to identify his creativity in constructing his novel.

The study is descriptive and analytical; it analyses selected aesthetical elements in the novel while explaining the creative features contained in them namely: the titling, the introduction, spatio-temporal construction, character building, conflicts, events formulation, plot development, narrative style, language and dialogue, imageries and the ending.

This study intends to enrich critical studies in Malay literature while introducing this indigenous work to the Arabic reader.

Among the conclusions of this study: the writer uses a figurative title and has successfully building the characters and developing the events, although that the plot seems to be scattered.

Among the narrative techniques used by the writer are: third person pronoun, description, flashback, deconstruction, omission and message.

He also use analogy and metaphor extensively.

He also compares the ‘social’ life of trees and animal with that of civilized human, an implicit invitation to human to look into the life of these creations.