Description of Place in the Novel Beautiful Damascus


Abstract in English

The description of place in the novel, Beautiful Damascus, is associated with its creator’s cultural dimension, so he impregnates it with his thoughts and aspirations. Place description is one based upon interpretation. He did not describe geographical places in particular, but he intended to form them in an artistic manner which serves his ideas. He also described place both accurately and in accordance with the novel’s characters’ activities within that place. Place description is linked to colour so that it can reveal their psychological situations. He also described non-visible place because he felt that eyesight is not alone capable of description in a perfect way.

References used

داود, أحمد يوسف, دمشق الجميلة, منشورات اتحاد الكتاب العرب, 1976م, دمشق.
ريكاردو, جان, قضايا الرواية الحديثة, ترجمة: صياح الجهيم, منشورات وزارة الثقافة, دمشق, 1977م.
عيسى, محمد سلمان, النقد الأدبي العربي الحديث و المعاصر, مطبعة البعث, 2013-2014م.

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