The Mechanisms of Paradox Work in the Very Short Story A Reading in the "Jalalat Abdel-Jib" Collection by Said Butajine

Abstract

The “very short story” is considered as a new type of narrative literacy which clearly represents the new literacy features in the postmodern period that gives consideration to diversity, difference, disassembly, condensation and paradox; which seek to transcend reasonable perceptions and rational self-concept by adopting a diverse discourse that exceeds the knowledgeable and cultural fields and gives great importance to the reflective language of our ways of thinking and perceptions and our concepts. This language is keeping the pace of the rhythm of the era in which the creative literacy is associated with the revolution of information that is inclining to the rapid access to information and diversity in the methods of speech and presentation approachesdue to the great technological acceleration that has passed through the world and the profound changes that have taken place on many political, social and economic levels, and thus changing the form of discourse that has produced an alternative narration of the old long narration that has been replaced by a short narration that has adopted economy and density and employed new attributes to meet the needs of the recipient in the most accessible ways.

This research is based on two parts: (i) a theoretical discussion of the problems, visions and attitudes associated with the very short story and has been opened to discuss one of the postmodern issues represented by the paradox and (ii) an applied section focusing on the paradox as a characteristic and a prominent component of the very short story by working on stories collection "His Majesty the slave of the pocket” "Jalalat Abdel-Jib" of the Algerian narrator EssaïdBoutajine.