Representations of reality and the imaginary in the Novel (Isabelle)by slim batka

Abstract

The novel succeeded in shaping a raw aesthetic material through the relationship between reality and imagination. It draws its substance from reality and then reshapes it into a fictional form. It relies on the historical dimension, which constitutes the foundation of this reality, where the novelist finds himself transcending lived reality, expressing it with sincerity and transferring it into an imaginative space in which the reader soars into another world. Through language – the primary tool of creativity- the writer employs imagination to produce new images that convey the depths of the human soul, portraying its features, sorrows, and joys. This duality between reality and imagination has prompted many researchers to question the aesthetics that bind them together. From this standpoint, we aim in this study to explore the representations of this relationship in the novel Isabelle by Salim Batka, by analyzing the novelist’s ability to transform reality into narrative imagination, and by examining the dimensions of fictional narration and the protagonist’s autobiography.We will also seek to identify the elements that constitute the fictional world-places, times, and characters- and to distinguish between what it real and what is imagined within the text