The Narrative Vision and Psychological Dimensions in the Novel "Doll of Fire" by Bashir Mifti

Abstract

Critics and researchers have extensively discussed narrative vision as one of the most important techniques in storytelling, revealing the narrator's perspective on events and characters. It is the technique that reveals the narrator's view of fictional reality from different angles, where objective narration may overlap with subjective narration, or one may dominate the other. Through the narrative vision, multiple voices and ideologies emerge, engaged in a harmonious conflict that reflects the author's understanding of his characters and his position in relation to them, whether superior, inferior or equal.

In Algerian novels, the narrative vision includes ideological, psychological and cultural dimensions that vary according to the different perspectives and their evolution during the narrative events. The novel "Doll of Fire" by Bashir Mifti aroused our interest in this concept and raised a fundamental question: What are the ideological dimensions of the novel? How does the narrator position himself in relation to these dimensions, and how does his narrative skill manifest itself in revealing them in their various manifestations?