A Study of the Building Elements in the Novel Giants of the North by Naguib Al-Kilani (With a Look at the History of Writing the Novel in Contemporary Arabic Literature)

Abstract

The emergence of the Arabic novel is linked to the political, social and cultural conditions in the Arab countries, especially Egypt. Literary critics believe that the beginning of writing the literary novel in Egypt and the Arab world was in the year 1913 AD when the novel "Zeinab" by Muhammad Hussein Haikal was printed. Naguib Al-Kilani is a poet and literary critic from Egypt. He is a creative novelist who wrote the most Arabic-Islamic novels. The following article deals with the elements of the superstructure and the substructure in the novel Giants of the North with research and analysis. The importance of this research and the need for it lies in the fact that it provides the reader with a better and better knowledge of the intellectual world of the writer by focusing on the topics raised, and being well aware of the impact of the political and social circumstances of the time on the aforementioned work. The research method is descriptive - analytical, in which library tools and sources were used