The novelistic discourse in the time of Corona: a reading of the textual thresholds and references to the saying in the novel “The Corona Spring” by Ahmed Al-Hadi Rashrash

Abstract

The COVID -19 has represeneted a global and human pandemic that dislocated the world and spread terror and panic among the peopleon the surface of the globe, until it became the event that filled the ears of the world and occuped people. There is no discussion among people except that epidemic, and no thinking except that disaster that paralysed life and the possible solutions to confront its danger. Therefore, there was a lot of writings about it, so news and stories were written, and the novel was written as well. The novel « Crona Spring » by the Lybian novelist Ahmed Rashrash was not only the briallant examle of the pandemic isolation, but also the exception in the genre of fictional writing, because it was the first novel written for this purpose. This study to delve into the tresholds of the narrative discourse and its references, because the « Corona Spring » seemed to us an open book and a text that accepts reading and interpretation, so i used the inductive analytical method and the hermeneutic method. This study reached a set of results, the most important of which are: the “Corona Spring” was the symbolic novelist with distinction, several textual entries combined to produce the imaginary sign in it, starting from the threshold to the outer cover and reaching its body. And the “Corana Spring” is a fictional work that extracts its material from the specifics of reality, history, poetry, theater and philosophy, and in this way it is a text that is open to many refrences in the saying that reflects the breadth of knowledge of its owner.