(البعد الفكري في رواية نزيف الحجر لإبراهيم الكوني)

Abstract

 (The intellectual dimension in the novel Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim Al-Koni)

    In its theoretical aspect, the study deals with the expressive style of writing in general and in narrative writing in particular, and the relationship of literature to life, reality and imagination, as well as symbol and myth, through a brief review of the opinions of the critics.  Then, in its practical aspect, It dealt with the text by analyzing, revealing, and clarifying the general idea of ​​the text and the secondary ideas spread in its folds, to arrive at several conclusions, perhaps the most important of which is the text’s preoccupation with important issues such as the issue of existence and nothingness, the human relationship with the environment, and the principle of the vitality of matter.  And the difference of religions, and Sufism, and some ideas of eastern philosophies, magic, and totemism, and the writer intertwined in the bleeding of the stone with several traditional texts that he employed in his narrative discourse.