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The history of the story, which is a type of prose that human beings use to convey their feelings and emotions and which tells about lived or fictionalized events, is based on fables and short romances in Ancient Greece, although it has reached our day through various stages. However, this genre became a genre in the modern sense with the works of American, French and Russian writers in the 19th century. These authors include Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1869), Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Nikolay Vaselovich Gogol (1809-1852) and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). The 'Decamero Stories' written by Giovanni Boccacci (1313-1375) is accepted as the first story in world literature. Alphonse Daudet's story called 'Letters from the Mill' is among the important examples of this genre. In Turkish literature, Ahmet Mithat Efendi's 'Lataif-i Rivayat', Samipaşazade Sezai's 'Little Things' and the works of Ömer Seyfettin and Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil can be counted among the first examples. In the Arab geography, on the other hand short stories and other literary genres emerged in the first quarter of the 19th century due to both political and social reasons. The first Arabic short story written in this genre is 'Fi'l Kitar' written by the Egyptian writer Muhammed Teymur. The literary activity that firstly started in Egypt was thanks to the efforts of the students whom Mehmet Ali Pasha sent to the West. This literary movement, which started in Egypt later, was also observed in Arab countries such as Lebanon, Syria and Algeria.
Although it is not known when the short story was exactly born, it is accepted as one of the first li-terary genres that emerged in Algeria. According to the common view, it is accepted that such es-says were published between the First World War and 1930. Algeria was in a cultural crisis at this time. The colonial powers also benefited from the cultural and political dilemma in the country. Colonial powers celebrated the loss of Algerian national and cultural identity. It had been a cen-tury after they occupied and remained in Algeria. The colonial powers, which increased their inf-luence at all levels of the country, aimed to spread the French language throughout the country with the laws they made. These efforts rendered French language the most spoken language in the country. However, this situation caused the literary genres in the country, especially the story gen-re, to be born in the later periods and there was a dichotomy in terms of both literary and spea-king. Under these circumstances, Arabism and Westernism in the genre of short stories emerged in the country. Among these movements, the Arabism emerged with the establishment of the Muslim Scholars Association, which adopted the slogan that "The future of this nation can only be revived by what its past revives" and mobilized the Islamic and national feelings of the people during the First World War. The pioneers of this movement carried out many cultural activities for the total influence of Arabic into the entire Algerian culture. Westernism, on the other hand, was a trend that spread very quickly due to the fact that there were people who preferred the French langua-ge in terms of cultural development and the prevalence of French in the country.
Literary genres such as short stories and novels in modern Algeria emerged later than other Arab countries due to the activities of colonial powers and various reasons. Abdulhamid b. Hadouga who was accepted as one of the leading representatives of these two genres, was born on January 9, 1925 in Algeria and died in the same place in 1996. Abdelhamid b. Hadouga became an extremely successful story and novel writer with his unique style that he used in his works. He often gave place to the social and psychological problems of French colonialism on Algerian society dealing with social issues such as migration, love, marriage, suicide and divorce in his works. In the story called "Immigrant", which is discussed in this article, the author expresses the events and injustices in a realistic style that bothered the main character, Mevlut, who went from Algeria to France with the dream of opening a restaurant. In this story, in which many literary expression techniques were used together, he proved to be a master storyteller with his narrative language, the establishment of plot, the occasional descriptions and poetic expressions. In this respect, the subject of the study is composed of mainly Algerian storytelling, the life, works and literary personality of Abdelhamid b. Hadouga's and the analysis of his story "Immigrant".