NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES IN THE ARAB NOVEL – "THE ANDALUSIAN HOUSE" BY THE ALGERIAN WRITER WASINI AL-A'RAJ AS A MODEL

This study deals with the topic of narrative techniques in the Arab novel -the novel "The Andalusian House" by the Algerian writer Wasini Al-A'raj as a model.This is a very important topic in the field of the art of writing novels.The novel "The Andalusian House" is one of the prominent literary works that combine linguistic beauty with cultural and historical depth.In this novel, Al-A'raj's skill in weaving events and narration in a skillful way that combines the past and the present is evident.The research followed the descriptive and analytical method.Given that the narrator is that thin thread that connects all the components of the narrative discourse and is like the gateway through which we enter the worlds of the novel, it was natural to begin the study with him and for him to be the subject of the first section entitled "The Narrative Formula and its Patterns of Operation in the Novel Text".Adjacent to him in the same chapter is another statement that is closely related to him, which is the statement of the narrative formula.The second section, entitled: Time Construction Techniques in the Andalusian House Novel, is devoted to examining the temporal construction in the novel and its method, through two main axes: the axis of flashback and the axis of anticipation, to stand on the novelist's use of temporal narrative techniques in constructing his text.The third section, entitled: Patterns of Place in the Andalusian House Novel, was devoted to standing on the connotations celebrated by this sensitive component that the novelist directed to be the title of his text.The research ends with a conclusion that gathers the most important results reached in analyzing the text of the novel .