Abstract:
This research is part of a study of the relation linking between the popular
heritage and the Algerian novelist creativity. The popular heritage is a living
material that carries a cognitive and artistic momentum; it is rejuvenated by the
renewal of the narrative vision, and is ready to assimilate the imminent
transformations at the level of the narrative text in their various manifestations.
Through posing a set of questions about:
-The nature of the universal relation between what is of individual authorship
and of modern formation, which is subject to the rules of the written character,
and between the popular collective creativity through time? and the limits of the
relation and its extensions?
- And the formula by which the novelist could combine between the individual
and the collective without losing each one’s own existence? about the forms and
images of this formula?
-Did the novelist win the challenge of modernization in return for the loss of
widespread reception, especially in light of the problems of receiving the
inherited popular material?
We have attempted to reach an answer in five texts belonging to the unique
corpora and surprise, by the Algerian novelist Wacini Laredj, namely:
- Nuwwar al-Lawz -Almond Blossoms-(The epic journey of Saleh bin Amer
Al-Zoufri).
- The remainder of the biography of Lakhdar Hamroushe.
-Faji'at al-Layla al-Sabi'a ba'd al-Alf, Raml al-Maya 1/2 (The Disaster of the
Seventh Night after the One Thousand Night, Raml al-Maya, 1/2).
- al-Makhtuta al-Sharqiyya - The eastern manuscript.
-Jumlukiat Arabia- The Republic Kingdom of Arabia.
We assumed that the popular heritage, in all its sections and branches, has
become a fundamental reference in the construction of the novelist architecture. It carried out other functions that diverge from the original function that put
foundations of art in the environment through an exceptional ability for
inspiration and employment; and led to bringing out the inherited popular
material as a value with its dynamic and effective presence in the service of
narrative intent.