Alienation Representation in Ahmed Fal al-Din’s Novel “The Pupillary”

Abstract

Overview: The theme of alienation is pervasive across all literary genres and is among the most significant topics pertaining to literature in the Arab world and in the world in general. But it garners a lot of attention in the Arab narrative because, to the intellectual Arab who relays the events of, it represents a social, political, cultural, and psychological issue. It engages with and is influenced by the lived reality in its literary work.

One of the Arab novels that addressed the phenomena of alienation and powerfully personified its aspects through an influential personality at the level of Arab civilizational and cultural history is Ahmed Fall Uld Eddine Al-Hadqi is a Mauritanian writer. It also drew parallels between him and a contemporary Arab intellectual, highlighting the social, political, and economic struggles they both face, as well as the complexities of the characters that helped to highlight the plight of the intellectual.

Through historical recollection, questioning of the present, approach to events, and immanence of reality, the novel wonderfully and accurately embodied all the characteristics of alienation, symbolised by social isolation, grief, loneliness, anxiety, and social injustice. Because of this, the story becomes a series of interconnected incidents in which the protagonists proceed in accordance with their primary goal-revealing the scope of the Arab issues.