The Ego and the Other between Fixed and Changeable in the Contemporary Arabic Fiction A Literary Reading of «AZIF EL GHUYUM » Novel by Ali Badr الأنا والآخر بين الثّابت والمتغيّر في الرواية العربيّة المعاصرة قراءة في "عازف الغيوم" لعليّ بدر

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article studies the thesis/issue of the ego and the other in contemporary Arabic fiction, focusing on the aspects of stability, reliability, and differences between what was before and how it changed now. That is why we have chosen the novel (The Player of the Clouds) «azif el guyum » by the Iraqi writer (Ali Badr) as a sample, which depicts the patriotic, nationalistic, and religious journey of the musician (Nabil) escaping from his ego towards the other with all its Western and European representations, by extrapolating and analysing the sources of the affection and influence between this character and the world to which he was directed. And the extent to which he sticks to his identity or abandons it. Finally, let us focus on the constants and variables between the ego and the other in this text and on the relationship between them.