Abstract
REALISM AND SYMBOLIC FUNCTION IN A NOVEL (SNOW COMES FROM THE WINDOW) FOR (HANNA MINA)
The spaces of the narrative port are varied, from village to city, from
land to sea, from east to west and accordingly to the characters of
his novels. The village is a narrow world bounded by specific
frameworks that compel the minds of people and restrict their areas
of development due to the control of feudalism over most of the
lands, as reflected, mainly in the curriculum vitae.
The city, (the city of Mina), is a poor public neighborhood, like the
village is under poverty, struggling with class and opportunism in the
hope of winning a free and dignified life.
Mina emerges from the narrow frame at the local level, and conveys
to us the experience of the Syrian citizen in his forced alienation. The
other is recognized in this different environment; another
civilization, and another thought, and between this and that
wandering expatriate and get confused, and lost identity, sometimes,
accordingly, and the nostalgia for home is stuck in the chests in the
hope of return.
Throughout the language and detailed description, Mina works on
the embodiment of the places and depicts them with infinite
accuracy.
Hanna Mina counts on the school of realism, he has emerged in the
Syrian novel since his first novel, "Blue Lantern" in 1945, and
imposed himself in the following literature as a talented writer prolific
production, which distinguishes the other novelists in that he drew
his vision of the actual suffering on the ground. He sees that Realism
can digest the sum of known currents, whether romantic or symbolic;
this position explains how it uses symbol or modern techniques in
its novel.
In the novel of Snow comes from the window, the hero running away
initially from facing of tyranny, but at different stages he learns the
principles of struggle and passed the stages of consciousness, and
develops his character from the level of the average person to the
level of revolutionary hero and fighter.
In this study, we illustrate Hanna's vision of realism and its
characteristics in this novel, on the one hand, and the revelation of
rigid objects, on the other hand, especially the window, which plays
an important role in portraying the protagonist's stages of
development
Keywords
Realism, Hanna Mina, The Avatar function
