The Baghdad Clock” Novel in Perspective of the Magical Realism

Abstract

Magical realism is one of the modern schools that have recently appeared in Latin American literature on a large scale because of its interesting and strange style. This made new novelists on the Arab scene follow similar approach in writing their novels. Shahd Al-Rawi, a young Iraqi writer was among these writers and novelists who chose the current magical realism in writing her first novel, "The Baghdad Clock", embodying its elements of magic, illusion, fantasy, myth, symbol, duality, and the writer's silence and non-Non biases towards the supernatural events in the novel. Summarizing, Magical realism means merging the real world with the unreal or the imaginary, this point of view started this article, studying and analyzing these elements and show how to use them and their role in narrating the events of this novel according to the content analysis method. The results of the study indicate that the writer was good at merging the real and the unreal worlds together so that the reader accepts them and believes them and is not surprised when confronted with the supernatural events in the novel. As it became clear to us during the study of the novel that one of the most important themes on which the novelist focused was the suffering of the Iraqi people during the years of war and siege indirectly and its extensive use of magical realism elements.