The Tragic Dimension in Rabee Jaber's Novel Druze of Belgrade- The Life of Hanna Jacob

Abstract

The novel is regarded as the soft tool in the age of cultural globalization. It is the genre that contains different events, lives, and crises suffered by human beings. It is formed by the creative self with a diverse artistic touch with a view to raise aesthetic, philosophical, and human issues which invite to integration, dialogue, and discussion. The novel is an artistic expression of the fatal crises that face man and place him/her at the borders of tense areas in which he/she loses his/her belonging and destiny, which threaten the human self with dissolution and decline under the shadow of the disintegration of values, of the collective self, of the mess of the individual self, of mystery of the present, of the disassociation of future, and the fragmentation of logic and familiarity. Hence, Druze of Belgrade by the Lebanese novelist Rabee Jaber aims at establishing a new artistic taste, and raising a deeply aesthetic and human consciousness that reaches to the fragility of the human reality. The novelistic text sheds light on man's pains, unmasking the violence of the tragic history which destroyed man's entity, identity, and self, pushing him to acquire the guilt of a new different and false identity. Fate and human acts had a role in determining tragic human destines dominated by exile and death.