알라 알디브 『레몬 꽃』의 회고 서술에 관한 연구

A Study on Flashback in Alaa al-Dib’s Novel Zahr al-Laymun(Lemon Blossom)

The paper aims at surveying the aspects of flashback or analepsis as shown in Egyptian writer Alaa al-Dib’s novel Zahr al-Laymun(Lemon Blossom). The novel consists of the protagonist Abd al-Khaliq al-Masiri’s weekend trip from Suez to Cairo where his family and friends live. The trip is primarily a spatial transfer;but the author attempts to expand the dimension of narration in order to contain time-related experiences of the past. The novel’s flashback characterizes three main groups; the protagonist’s family and neighbors;his comrades in the association and prison;and his lover and wife Muna al-Misri. The flashback does not present the past events in a consecutive way. On the contrary;reversed sequences are frequently observed. Nevertheless the events are not so hard to understand;because the novel’s language is in common literary style. The ups and downs of the flashbacked events bear a close parallel to the deteriorating social conditions of Egypt in the 1970s. The novel does not offer any brand new narrative technique;but succeeds in reflecting the Egyptian intellectual class’s growing alienation from the society.