Qualitative Overlap and Statement of Artistic and Aesthetic Values: Novel (Bodies and Their Shadows) by Haitham Behnam Barada as a Model

Abstract

The novel (Bodies and Their Shadows) by Haitham Behnam Barada was distinguished by breaking the causal sequence of events by presenting a model that is considered an experimental precedent at the level of the short novel that enters within the postmodern narrative in terms of the novelistic craft and narrative craft, as it depends on the overlap with literary genres, as well as its ability to diversify the personality and overlap the facts. Events and longtime spans, which enriched the narrative with factual multiplicity and narrative diversity. Therefore, this research came to study the short novel and its qualitative overlap, and to clarify the artistic and aesthetic values ​​to reveal the modernist model of Haitham Behnam Barada in writing the short novel.

The research was based on an introduction and four topics. The introduction included defining the concept of the term short novel, its characteristics, and the short novel in the literature of Haitham Behnam Barada. Each of the four sections specialized in studying the qualitative overlap of the novel in terms of the autobiographical novel, the biographic narrative, the epistolary narration, and the diary narration.