Narrative anxiety in the novel (The Edges) by Mahmoud Jandari

Abstract

The focus of the research revolves around the anxious narrative pursued by the narrator، and its imprints appear clearly on the rest of the narrative elements، and this comes from the attractive relationship between all components of the narrative. The term anxiety is defined in the psychological field as a pathological condition more than a physical one، although its connection to the body is strong، which reflects a negative condition affecting the body. It affects the general behavior of the character، and he behaves in a way that is different from what is normal and natural. This disease is usually associated with people who are willing to accept it because it is an imaginary disease rather than a real one. It is an emotional state characterized by a strong affection towards the other and one who expects for him or for himself the occurrence of danger and a feeling of complete inability to overcome it، and often Anxiety afflicts those with weak nerves، or those who are characterized by emotion، drive، and a sensitive feeling، or those who sense danger، whether that danger is imaginary or real. At the same time، narrative narration constitutes an artistic value in entering into telling the story and presenting it in an artistic manner through varying procedures between one storyteller and another، according to the method he chooses. And the mechanisms that he employs with the aim of drawing the final imaginative picture of the axis of the story (the nucleus) and then presenting its events in a comprehensive manner to become an integrated work of art. Thus، the narrator has produced a second text addressed to the reader in which details and elements have been added to the basic facts of the events، and from here comes the importance of narration، as The narrator deliberately manipulates his presentation in terms of time and the order of events، as well as the rest of the other narrative elements، according to his vision، point of view، and location... and for this reason we find a discrepancy between the time of the story and the time of its narration.