قراءة لرواية "أسطورة النداهة" لأحمد خالد توفيق في ضوء المنهج البنيوي التكويني لغولدمان

Reading the novel afsāna al-Nedāhat (The Myth of Nedāha) of Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq with the emphasis on Goldman's genetic structuralist Criticism

Social criticism is an attempt to highlight the relationship between society and literature, and creating a mutual ties between them. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq is one of the pioneers of horror literature in Arabic. He wrote in 1990s a huge collection in horror genre. This collection called the "Supernatural", was helpful to his famous. From a social view point, Tawfiq dealt in supernatural series and especially in Afsana al-nadaha, with some of the issues of the Egyptian rural society in the last century. This article tries to reveal social aspects of the novel Afsana al-nadaha, within a descriptive-analytical method and relies on Lucien Goldman's genetic structuralist criticism. In this novel Ahmad Tawfiq Khalid examines the secrets of Egyptians backwardness and their encounter with new sciences in their progress periods and believes that the most important social problems in Egyptian rural society concerns poverty, superstitions and lack of education. The writer believes that the reform in rural society will be achieved through the education of people. Tawfiq expresses social pains and tries to inform his addressees of social consequences of superstitions and concerns related to the encounter of the society with the rapid advances in sciences.