الأبعاد التاريخية في روايتي أبناء القلعة والزوبعة لزياد القاسم

Historical Dimensions in the Two Novels, Abnaa' Al Qal'a (Sons of the Castle) and Al Zqwba'a (The Whirlwind) by Ziad Al Qassem

Abstract

This study is based on addressing the historical dimensions in the novels that portrays reality, and the conflict with it, through a historical narration of real events in a distinctive epic novelist style. Among those who excelled in this direction is the Jordanian novelist Ziad Al Qassem in his two novels Sons of the Castle and The Whirlwind with its four parts, the events of which began before the events of the novel Sons of the Castle. Although the novel Sons of the Castle was published four years before the publication of the first part of The Whirlwind, its events followed and complemented the events of the whirlwind that began with the period “in which sectarian strife erupted in Lebanon, in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century with English support for the Druze and French for the Maronites. It ended with the region's struggle to get rid of the British and the Jews, with the outbreak of World War II when the events of the novel Sons of the Castle began from the winter that "followed the fall of Berlin and the destruction of Hiroshima, and the Palestinians first catastrophe. It ends with the defeat of June at the end of the sixties with different spatial expansion between them. The events of The Whirlwind extended to (Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, France, Astana, North and South America, Brazil, and Kuwait), while the events of the Sons of the Castle “were confined to the Castle area in the middle of the Jordanian capital, Amman.