NEO-REALISM AND ITS ELEMENTS IN SONALLAH IBRAHIM S AUGUST STAR

New conditions that dominated Egypt in the second half of the twentieth century necessitated revising intellectual and artistic concepts there. By this way، the followers of neo-realistic trend and who tried to get closer to the reality adopted different styles to express their views. Sonallah Ibrahim is one of the neo-realist writers who believed that they should break away with classical methods of writers and portray truth with a new outlook. This novelist، in his “August Star” (1974) managed to revel the contradictionsthrough a realist method which precisely depicts everyday events and avoids any interference in the narration. The analysis of the novel elements demonstrate that the main character has been omitted from the story and different characters remain static till the end. Time goes without any significant happening and there are no “flash back” and “forward” techniques in the story. The events of the story take place in different places which have their own importance. The plot of the novel does not include conflict، climax and dénouement. Following، descriptive method، this article has tried to analyze the Neorealist and its elements and to get the ideas of critics and theorists like Allan Rob.