المدونة
Volume 13, Numéro 1, Pages 229-248
2026-06-10

Myth And History: The Great Mother Myth In The Novel Of The Worshipper In His Last Tale

Authors : Zara Nour El Houda .

Abstract

Muhammad Khudair Sultan’s The Worshipper in his Last Tale opens up new horizons in modern Arab literary narratives as it revisits heritage, drawing from its fertile sources to establish a unique literary voice. It blends the craftsmanship of historical writing with the imagination of narrative storytelling, creating the issue of the intersections between the objectivity of the reference and the creativity of its adaptation. The study examines these depths to understand the aesthetic qualities of adopting a mythological frame related to the epic of Gilgamesh, in its parts of the Great Mother and the Son of the Wilderness.

Keywords

novel ; tale ; mythology ; Gilgamesh ; history