A Formalist Review of “Snake” (Al-Hayyah) Short Story in “Fall of Darwish” (Kharif Al-Darwish) Fiction Collection by Ibrahim Al-Koni

The stories and novels of the Ibrahim Al-Koni are characterized by their own poetic language and their mysterious and magical realms. These features are reflected in the "“Fall of Darwish” (Kharif Al-Darwish) Fiction collection, where each story tells the story of the magical desert reality and its legendary features.
This study tries to investigate the “snake” story in “Fall of Darwish” fiction collection by Ibrahim Al-Koni based on Tomachevski and Shklovski’s formalist criticisms. The focus of the study is on the text from the point of view of theme, les motifs, the dominant and singularisation.
The results of the study show that the ratio of dynamic motifs are higher than static motifs, which is in line with the general process of the story that needs a kind of variety in theme and dynamism. Dynamic motifs have created this dynamism in the story. The results also show that as the method of narration of the story is traditional, there is no singularisation in narrative method of the author, and therefore, singularisation appears more in applying poetic and figurative speech and also in narrator’s point of view, who has addressed the mythical image of the story.