Abstract

The research presents the types of mental masonry in the Syrian novel, one of the models of which are the novels that were published in the second half of the twentieth century, the following results were studied through the research .There were many places in the realistic Syrian novel, so the places were varied due to the variety of the real Syrian reality.The Syrian novelists have always portrayed the place in their novels as the main incubator for the events .Throughout distinguishing between the real place and the mental masonry , the researcher finds that the mental masonry is a mental construct, while the real place was real (realistic), which is the origin of the mental masonry. Among the types of artistic place are the closed place and the open place, which determines the characters who live in. The change of their thinking to other places, and there are many closed places between the office, the tent, the guesthouse, the basement and the mosque, While the office and the guesthouse were associated with figures symbolizing power, the mosque and the basement were associated with demonstrations and organizing the revolution As for the scary place and the familiar place, they were associated with the psychological state of the characters who penetrate the place and interact with the events, and what the place evokes of beautiful or painful feelings and memories in the human soul, while the familiarity of the place was absent from the colonial personalities.

Keywords: the realistic place, the artistic place, the Syrian novel.

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