Building characters in the novel "Chaos of the senses" by Ahlam Mostaganemi

Document Type : Original Article

Author

the department of Arabic language Kassadi University Mirbah-Ouargla-Algeria

Abstract

The new criticism focused on describing the functions of characters within the structure of the text. This cohesion in the construction of character only emerged from the beginning of the twentieth century with the "Russian Formalists" who created the real innovation in terms of studying the features and literary features of literary production
This study attempts to extract the most important characteristics of Ahlam Mostaganemi's novel "Chaos of the Senses", following Philippe Hamon's classification in his analysis of the novelist characters as he is one of the most important Simeon theorists who paid special attention to this novelist component.
At the end of the study, she concluded that the novelist has diversified the characters of the novel from historical, figurative, and hypocritical figures. Also, Secondary figures have contributed to the development of events, and the writer has highlighted her positions on the events that the country experienced during the national tragedy and met the present moment in the past.