Magical Realism in the Novel Al-Ashjar va Ightiyal Marzouq

Magical realism is a combination of reality, myth, and history that entered the world of literature from the magical world of Latin American peoples. The concern for the excluded from society and the downtrodden in reality mixed, with imagination, is the common principle of all writers of magical realism. Saudi writer and novelist, Abdul Rahman Munif, wrote the novel Al-Ashjar va Ightiyal Marzouq under the influence of magical realism to tell the life story of Mansour Abdul Salam and Elias Nakhla as excluded people from society. Munif considers the expulsion of Mansour and Elias from society a product of the backwardness of the Arab community and the persecution of government officials. In the novel Munif allowed Mansour and Elias to take control of the novel and discuss their private lives and the challenges of the Arab world with literature that blends reality and imagination. This study aimed to analyze, using a descriptive-analytical method, the critical atmosphere of contemporary Arabic novels, and such a research is necessary because investigating new methods in novel writing and the effectiveness of these methods on the evolution of Arabic novels requires ongoing discussion. The results show that Munif has wisely and deliberately created a dark imaginary world that should be viewed from two perspectives. First, there is no place for light, human rights, and pluralism in the novel, and individuals are persecuted regardless of religious affiliation or social class. Second, there are solid individual motives for rebelling against all the inings that limit humans in this novel.