The symbolic place in the novel The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim Al-Koni

Abstract

The place in the modern novel is a narrative element like other components of the narrative. It
does not exist except through language. It is a verbal space, a space that does not exist except
through the words printed in the book. Therefore, it is formed as a subject of thought created
by the novelist in all its parts, and bears a character identical to the nature of fine arts. The
principle of the place itself, and the place is an element of the forming elements of the event
and the personality and a dramatic factor in the novel, which has an impact on the writer’s
vision in general and the formation of the fictional work, to the extent that what we can call
the spatial novel arose so that the place plays the role of the hero, as in the novel “Bleeding
Stone” by Ibrahim Al-Koni.
- So did the place play the starring role in the novel The Bleeding Stone?
- Was he able to employ the dimensions and aesthetics of the place through this place?
- And to what did the rock or stone symbolize in this novel? Was it semantic? Or a technician?