Shkolovsky's defamiliarization technique in the episodes of the novel Brid Alil

The author's ability to present ordinary issues in a new and unexpected way is called "unfamiliarity". The author's purpose in using this technique is to create a breach in the human being caught in repetition, stereotypes and habits in order to change his accustomed perception and feeling of various things. "Brid al-Layl" is the title of a novel by Hoda Barakat, a Lebanese writer living in France, which immediately attracted the readers' attention, as it won the "Arab Booker" award in 2018. This novel tells the story of those who, mainly due to forced migration, have experienced a crisis of relationship, especially between mothers and children, lover and lover, as well as a crisis of communication with other cultures. To illustrate this critical relationship, the author uses Ashkelovsky's de-familiarization technique. The present study, with its library studies and descriptiveanalytical approach, seeks to show the familiarity and defamiliarization in the character, plot, narrative and narration of the novel, which is presented as independent episodes in the form of correspondence. In this novel, the narrator of each episode is its central character. The results show that the author's goal of defamiliarization, creating doubt and penetration in macro-narratives such as mother and child and lover and lover to each other, as well as a relationship based on "kindness" to be able to break the taboo Emotional images depict the stalemate in the postmodern world.