الكاتب الضمنيّ في أعمال محمّد نفّاع الأدبيّة

Abstract

This article aims to examine the meaning and the context of the term "Implied Author" and how it is revealed in the literature of the local Palestinian writer Mohammad Naffa' (1939). Despite the vast amount of critical writing on Nafaa's literature, however, none has dealt or looked in depth into this aspect. The present article is  accumulative work of a 3- year project in which we carried out  a longitudinal holistic  research studying  all Naffa's story collections, 6 in number, and his novel "Fatima", published by Al-Raya Publishing in 2015, which had been earlier published as a series in Hadash website  (Al-Ittihad literature section), in addition to all the randomly published stories in this website up till June 2014.

This study considers the idea of aesthetic and thematic interconnectivity in Nafaa's works, i.e., for the narrator does not simply pick his information randomly; he bides himself to historical and ideological factors where he departs the surface to dive into the depth of things, thus becoming self-demanding. He is obliged to re-construct and re-frame and re-shape the concepts and the information all a new.

The Implied Author is the author's construct and his representative by being his second Ego. He is the mirror that will reflect to us this aesthetic interconnectivity with the thematic one, in particular. In order for that to happen, we, readers, need to follow the traces of the writer in the text examining the following five domains: the writer and his relationship to Time, the writer and Place, the writer and the Characters and finally the writer and the Narrator. What do we then mean by Implied Author and Real Author? What is the relation between the two? When does the narrator represent the real writer? How is this revealed in Naffa's literature? To what extent does the real author exist in the implied author? All these research questions are discussed and answered putting the relationship between the writer and the five previously mentioned domains. Furthermore, the reflection of this relationship on the role done by the Implied Author in Naffa's literary text will be elaborated.