Myth and narration In the novel “Al-Tiber” by Ibrahim Al-Koni

Abstract

This scientific article aims to open up the world of narrative writing according to the Libyan writer Ibrahim Al-Koni. Considering that the nature of this creative writing bears clear uniqueness in the Arab, Maghreb, and even local (Libyan) novel scene. Because of its reliance on new narrative elements and components that we rarely find in other writers and novelists. Among them is the writer’s tendency to furnish his narrative texts with mythology, various myths, worlds of magic, elves, goblins, and ghosts... in addition to his reliance on the desert space. As a vast place suitable for narrating stories and stories about themes and topics that the novelist chooses in order to address and treat them through his fictional texts. Based on this illustrative vision of Abraham’s cosmic world. Novelist, we will try to address his inspiration for myths in his novelist works. What are the implications, nature, and methods of this inspiration, with a focus on the narrative that the writer relies on? . To answer these questions, we chose the novel (Al-Tabar) as a narrative model for investigating and researching the elements and components that we chose to address in this article.