Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.581-598, 2020 (Hakemli Dergi)
A Literary novel deals with real and fictional issues to guide people's lives and lives and explain the changes, transformations and events that occur in societies. Novel; it reminds the past, describes the current situation and guides the future. When we examine the novels, we see that there are many novels that deal with disasters and epidemics that happen to human society, paralyze the mobility of the society, threaten social ties among individuals, and start to spread from the place where the epidemic is located, releasing the bridle of the fear and unrest. This study was carried out to reveal these aspects of such novels. This research has described the epidemic disease and explained its effect on Arabic literary arts such. This study focuses on researching and analyzing novel art. In this study, we divided Arabic novels that deal with epidemic diseases into two parts. The first one is the novels that address the real events recorded. As an example, we examined his novel "Ebola-76". This novel has addressed the first appearance of the epidemic disease, the attitude of people towards this disease, its negative effects on society, and the unrest and changes it caused. The second is scientific fiction novels. As an example, we examined the novel named al-Vebâü'l-Cehennemî. This novel tackled some real events by combining several fictional events to write virtual events that are likely to occur in the future. This novel speaks of Hell's Plague that originated in one of the Egyptian cities. The novel describes a comprehensive chaos that almost takes place from state control. The results obtained with this study are finally discussed.
Keywords: Literature, novel, plague, fiction, reality.