Space-time in Jamal Fayez's novel "Foam of Clay

Abstract

This study is keen to demonstrate the great impact of time and place in constructing the novel "Zabad Al-Teen" by the Qatari writer Jamal Fayez, after them being among the most important elements of narration. It clarified their connotations, dimensions, meanings, and their role in constructing the technical and intellectual novel and in shaping the world of the novel and its spaces. It shed light on the arts used for time and place, such as temporal paradoxes or dialogues. The study also touched on open and closed places, as the writer focused on the duality of the closed, which indicates familiarity, stability, and security, and the open, which indicates alienation, loss, and fear.