Description and Hybridization of Genre in Contemporary Algerian Novel: A Reading of "The Fingers of Lolita" (asabia Lolita) by Waciny Laredj

Abstract

The study aims to uncover descriptive mechanisms in Waciny Laredj's novel "The Fingers of Lolita" as channels for hybridizing the novelistic genre with poetry, painting, and cinema, constructing a polyphonic narrative universe.

It employs a descriptive-analytical methodology, tracing descriptive borrowings from poetry (rhythm, metaphor), painting (light/shadow), and cinema (shot, framing).

​Central questions address description's position within the novelistic text and how it appropriates poetry's rhetorical tools and painting's pictorial techniques to represent worlds and characters.

It also examines cinema techniques' exploitation in focalization and effects to achieve experimentation and divergence from traditional novelistic forms.