The Aesthetics of Fantasy and Metanarrative Manifestations in the ‎Novels of Ahmed Saadawi ‎(D's notes) as a Model

Abstract

     The novel “Diary of D” is a new fantasy extension in the worlds of novelist Ahmed Saadawi, and it is a new feature that is an evolution of the fantasy formation that his previous novels came aboutOur study is the pioneer in critical theorizing of this novel, especially since it was published in 2020, so there is no critical study about it.    The importance of our study appears in the rooting of the aesthetics of fantasy through the narratives that constitute various mirrors of reality, and the hypothesis is that the main theme in the novel describes the struggle (masculinity and femininity), through the identification between the mirrors of reality and the aesthetics of fantasy at the level of objective construction. With the adoption of metasraditional employment  as a structural, experimental, modernist system, at the level of narrative construction, all of such is employed to form the novel's stylistics in shifting away from the traditional levels of the novel.    We have adopted the hermeneutical analytical approach in revealing the novel's themes, and we have also benefited from the metasradic theory, especially that which Saeed Yaktin looked at in his book (Issues of the New Arabic Novel: Existence and Frontiers) and Dr. Jamil Al-Hamdaoui in his book (Forms of Metasrudic Discourse in the Short Story in Morocco).