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Speed has begun to leave its mark on all aspects of human life, including the literary aspect, which is the complete picture of the society in which a person lives. The emergence of the very short story was not just a sudden appearance, but rather was motivated by the requirements of modern life that wants to get things done very quickly, so this very short story genre appeared, carrying condensed and broad ideas on fundamental and indispensable foundations. Condensation is one of these foundations for building modern, short, and condensed stories, as is evident from its title. In order to achieve condensation, the storyteller must employ some methods in his stories to be able to write a distinctive narrative text that attracts the reader to it and draws him to read it. Relying on the structural approach in studying samples of very short stories led to the fact that condensation was not limited to reducing the number of words only, but rather included the idea, character, and space, as well as linguistic, formal, and event condensation. Thus, the storyteller Muhammad Mohaqiq was able, by using the techniques of paradox and sentence verbs, to achieve short story texts. Intensive, but the methods adopted by the storyteller were not limited to these only, but intertextuality and symbolism also register their presence as two mechanisms through which condensed narrative texts can be written, but to a lesser extent than irony and the literalism of sentences, and this is what makes the aforementioned methods more widely used in the collection of short stories under study. This is done with great skill and mastery.
Keywords: Arabic Narratology, The very short story, Muhammad Muhaqqiq, condensation, irony, phrasal verb, intertextuality, symbolism.
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