Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Aspects of Alienation in the Novels of Elias Khouri

Fayyad Haibi, Yaseen Kittani

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Elias Khoury is a prominent Lebanese novelist, playwright and literary critic who has influenced the art of Arabic novel writing, especially Lebanese. His novels have focused on wartimes, particularly the civil war in Lebanon. That heinous war was a recurring common theme in his works. In this article, we will focus on the loner characters emerging from the cruelty of that war. To examine this literary aspect– with loner characters taking central roles– we will study three of his novels; namely Little Mountain, White Masks and The Journey of Little Gandhi. The study suggests a special model which measures the degree of characters‘ alienation at different levels. The model, which is expected to be adopted as an analytical tool that sets criteria for alienation, involves several levels: social, political, economic, psychological, sexual, religious, geographical, physical, linguistic and exile. The present article is however confined to four levels: social, psychological, linguistic and sexual. The study of alienation is aimed at illustrating the direct relationship between the loner characters and the harsh reality of war. The study has shown that the loneliness of the characters is a product of the war.

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Fayyad Haibi, Yaseen Kittani Aspects of Alienation in the Novels of Elias Khouri International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 9 September 2015

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