Dramatic Narration in Hotel Europe Novel

Abstract

Novel is one of the narrative literary genres that are most open to other literary and artistic ones. So, we see that there is a strong interaction between the novel and the play, because they are two narrative literary genres that are united by common elements such as (dialogue, event, movement, and conflict).

Nevertheless, the novel has maintained its limits. It did not, with all its characteristics, turn into a theatrical text intended for performance. That is, it kept for itself distinct characteristics that express its identity, which separates it from the full dramatic text.

Henry James was under the strong influence of the theatre, so he called the writers of the novel to dramatize their novels by ridding them of the dominance of the knowledgeable narrator, and heading towards the hidden narrator. They express themselves far from his presence.

According to this vision, our understanding and reading of the novel (Hotel Europe) by the Kurdish novelist, Farhad Pirbal, as well as according to the mechanisms of the dramatic novel, we find this novel to be a dramatic novel, with all its elements and its narration structure having all the elements of that novel, and that its writer has consciously treated it to be a fictional text.

Dramatically, not only in its artistic elements (the narrator, the character, and the event) that we made as material for our research, the novelist has also transformed, consciously, the mentality of some of its characters, especially: the character of the focal point into a theater for the events of the past and the present through flashback and monologue techniques.