Cinematic narrative styleIn the novels that won the Arab Booker Prize

Abstract

The novels that won the Arab Booker Prize were able to keep pace with societal events in their development, and to exploit and employ all artistic means and methods, including employing theatrical dialogue method, and depicting the events of the novel in an amazing cinematic dramatic way by exploiting the mechanisms of the art of cinema, and used its aesthetic technique as a means in creating its own tools, The novel has benefited from the art of cinema by developing narrative tools and employing them in a highly artistic expressive space, such as montage and methods of scene and character construction, as well as the nature of the directorial policy associated with managing the course of events and the way they proceed. Fictional craftsmanship cannot be achieved unless the fictional language is subject to these methods. The winning novels benefited from the cinematic field by investing in its techniques and employing them in the texts of the new novel, and used its expressive tools and pictorial style to present a complex narrative in a manner in which scenes, images and snapshots with realistic movement follow to give them depth and impact that allowed the recipient to see the events embodied on the screen of his imagination, which goes back to The ability of its writers to employ cinematic techniques and write their novels under the influence of cinematic language in line with the development of narrative style, and the tendency of its writers to film their novels