iarjelIARJELIARJEL2708-5120https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjel.2025.v06i01.002The Fantastic Character in Najeeb Mahfoodh Novel "Alf Layla and Layla" الشخصية العجائبية في رواية الف ليلة وليلة لنجيب محفوظMarwaMohamad NajeebEducation College for Girls, Department of Arabic Language, University of Mosul, IraqThe fantastic trend has a prominent place and a present phenomenon in the novel as a literary genre and an important field that reflects its aesthetic and expressive value within the elements of narrative construction. The narrative of wonder is one of the most prominent new artistic forms of expression through which the creator exceeds the limits of the traditional framework of the plot, creating through the fantastic an aspect of change within the structure of the text in order to escape from a political or social reality and a desire to move away from direct statement, and to pass some social and political prohibitions and criticisms under the cover of the fantastic as a way of expressing criticism of reality after it has reached the highest degrees of unfamiliarity. The fantastic appears in the novel (The Thousand and One Nights) and has a strong presence in the general components of the novel structure, a desire to penetrate the form of the fantastic, deconstruct some of its symbols, reveal its artistic connotations and penetrate within it, by pointing to the appearance of the fantastic character within the structure of the fantastic text and its characteristics, in addition to the artistic value of the fantastic space and the expressive energy that is capable of attracting the psychological dimensions of the character and the events reflected on it.