A Sociological Approach on the Works of Taher Vettar: The Study of Al-Zalal based on Lucien Goldmans

Sheikh Taher Vetter, the Arabic Algerian novelist is one of the contemporary writers whose works portrays Algeria with all its ups and downs. Al-zelzal is a famous novel in which the issue of land reform law of 1971 in Algeria is discussed. To a certain extent, This novel expresses the thoughts and ideas of its writer. Vetter believed socialism as a solution to the problems of Algeria. The hidden world view of the work praises the shared hatred of the Feudal and Bourgeois nobility that causes a kind of confrontation between the conflicts of the events, that of the town's places and the antihero. This in turn, originates from the necessity of dealing between the camp with the peasants against of the Feudal and aristocrats. Al-Zalzal is a novel that shows the discourse of class struggle. This study employs Goldman's sociology to examine the structural relationships between the literary work and the writer's worldview.