The realistic appearances in the short story collection “I went to the waterfall” by Bahaa Taher

Abstract

Bahaa Taher is a well-known Egyptian novelist and storyteller in the Arab world who followed a realistic approach in some of his effects and anecdotal works. He took advantage of the realistic appearances to reflect his social ideology and the facts of his life and time. This modest study seeks through the descriptive analytical method to explain and analyze the main lines of realism in the story series The short “I went to a waterfall”, and the results show that Bahaa Taher, through his short stories, represents the crisis and bitter conditions outside the narration of his stories, and that the most important and most visible aspects of this group are: attention to detail in descriptions and events, highlighting his political and social views Critical, personal appearance of the storyteller, the importance of the media and the reference to the historical events