A Deconstructive Ccritique on the “Harb al-Kalb al-Taniyah” (The Second Dog war) novel

As one of the achievements of modernity in culture, the novel has been able to be a suitable literary expression tool for the inhabitants of different cultures to represent the events around them in an imaginary space with metaphorical language. Ibrahim Nasrallah (Palestinian Author) won the 2018 Booker Prize for this novel: “Harb al-Kalb al-Taniyah” (The Second Dog war). This novel focuses on the human capacity for savagery. The strange events that take place in the novel are symbolic of the social changes that have taken place in recent centuries around the world, and provide us with an insight into the future of humanity. The novel uses the science fiction genre or magical realism to narrate its plot. The story line addresses the social anomalies and savagery of buying and selling human souls and the destruction of human and moral values, not only in the Arab world but also globally. In this paper, the novel is examined from the perspective of deconstructive critique using the descriptive-analytical method. Accordingly, after a preliminary presentation of the novel and constructivist theory, the conflicts within the novel are identified and analyzed.