Study of the impact of the novel (The Trial) by Franz Kafka on the novel (The Other Rooms) by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (An analytical approach in the aspects of agreement between the two novels)

The novel is a modern literary genre in Arabic literature, and many researchers believe that it is the result of the influence of the Western novel, especially the European, on it after Arab writers learned about it through translation and other methods. Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, the Palestinian writer, was one of the most familiar Arab novelists in foreign literatures because of his reading of them and his translations of Western literature. After reading his novel “The Other Rooms” by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, which explores the living and the bitter reality of the Palestinian people, and comparing it to the novel The Trial by Frans Kafka, the Czech writer, which reveals the loss of man, Jabra Ibrahim influence on it was evident in some of the features related to the protagonist and the novelistic space. This research paper attempts, with its descriptive-analytical approach, to shed light on these two narratives and to reveal the aspects of interaction and convergence between them. One of the most important findings of the study is that the hero in both novels suffers from an unknown name and identity; Because the name of Kafka's hero is one letter, which is "K", and Jabra Ibrahim's hero changes his name frequently, as if he has fallen into marginalization. The hero in both novels is being chased by unknown parties in which his behavior has become unreasonable. Kafka and Jabra used satirical language in some scenes of the two novels. The last note is that the reader of the two novels finds himself in a nightmarish and absurd atmosphere.