Document Type : Research paper
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1 Assistant professor in Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Farhangian University, Iran, Tehran
2 Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature Education, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The novel " That Smell " by Sonallah Ibrahim Egyptian storyteller was published in 1986. He was sentenced to seven years in prison for Marxist and Nationalist tendencies on charges of political conspiracy and this story depicts his life experience in Egyptian prisons and has been written there. The prison space is the dominant atmosphere of the events of this novel, and Sonallah has attempted to show his life experience in this space. The present article, with a descriptive and analytical approach, seeks to examine this experience based on Henri Lefebvre's theory, based on the three perspectives of spatial action, spatial representation, and representation spaces. The findings of the study are: The narrator, in a direct and painful confrontation with the realities of prison and torture tools, depicts his body's interaction with the prison space and the objects in it. Representation of the prison by the narrator of the story under the influence of the 1960s in Egypt, where the main personality of the story has spent several years in prison for political charges and the discourses in the story are flowed by power institutions, and the narrator introduces the prison beyond a physical place, as a space related to power structure.Thus, the prison space in the narrator's mind, which is now being released from prison and is in a house arrest, has a deep connection with the power system. The narrator describes the prisoners from a close perspective and conveyes their conditions with a sense of shelter and vulnerability. Described the prison space emotionally and heavyly provided, and the narrator has surrendered to the prison environment and created a mental space that represents the glorification and influence of the discourse of power,
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