Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
Volume 3 | Issue 4
The relationship between the novelistic narrative in its linguistic manifestation and the implicit discourses it deliberately leaves unspoken has become a central concern in modern critical studies and across different fields of narrative. Such readings rely on rhetorical equivocation (tawriya) to uncover the latent domains of the unspoken. They move beyond the limited verbal surface and foreground productive meanings concealed within linguistic structures and lexical choices. This process remains closely connected to the present moment, which continues to shape literary writing. The disclosure of the implicit system, as one of the clearest manifestations of the unspoken, has become a productive field of interpretation. It contributes to meanings that exceed the immediate wording of the text by activating narrative rhythm and the components that organize a wide range of situations. Within the narrative, these situations function as literary testimony to what human authority does not openly articulate. This is clearly evident in Azzedine Djellaoudji's novel Hāʾ wa Asfār Ishtar. The novel adopts the perspective of the narrator-protagonist to reveal several implicit dimensions of human experience. In this and other literary works, the disclosure of the implicit begins as a narrative procedure and ultimately reaches the human sphere. It constructs situations concerned with marginalized human and civilizational questions, including the individual's relationship with authoritarian power and with major systems such as religion, society, and the family.