The intersection of literary genres in the Iraqi novelThe novel “Waterphone” by Naeem Al Musafer is an example

Abstract

    The Arabic novel in general, and the Iraqi novel in particular, have witnessed remarkable developments in the past decades. These developments were represented by the use or reliance on other literary genres, as it became a prominent phenomenon in most novels to reflect the novelist’s previous and diverse experiences, and thus it is a reflection of the complexities of society and reality, especially Iraqi society and reality, where the fictional text integrated most literary and artistic genres. The main goal of this study is to analyze this phenomenon, and to focus light on the main motives that made the writer resort to this phenomenon, and we chose the novel (Waterphone) by the novelist Naeem Al Musafir, as a model for our      research.