Fatima Parchekani

Articolo della Rivista, Anno XII, numero 23, giugno 2022

in La rivista di Arablit, a. XII, n. 23, giugno 2022, pp. 69-84. True historical events and figures are generally the basis of any historical novel, but a novel requires a literary form created by the imagination. Usually, the author introduces a combination of real and imagined facts. In his historical novel Durūz Bilġrād. Ḥikāyat Ḥannā Ya‘qūb (The Druze of Belgrade), Rabī‘ Ǧābir relied on several historical facts, enhancing them by the inclusion of events that could have occurred in that era, as well as introducing figures that could have existed. Some real characters are given pseudonyms [...]