THE BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL: HANNA MINA'S TRIOLOGY OF (REMAINS OF PICTURES, THE SWAMP, THE HARVESTING) AS AN EXAMPLE

There is an overlap between the term novelistic autobiography and other literary terms close to it, especially the terms of the novel and autobiography, which often causes researchers to confuse between it. because there are no clear boundaries to distinguish between these literary genres. And there is several monetary efforts have tried to lay the foundations and rules that differentiate these literary races and to avoid the confusion of scholars. Hanna Mina's trilogy of (Remains of Pictures, The Swamp, The Harvesting), which is a literary work in which the writer presented his real-life experience, especially his childhood, is still a difference of critics in the naturalization; Some said it was a novel, some said it was a biography, while others said it was a biographical novel. This research introduces Mina's trilogy to the reader, and depends on the most important formal features that help the student in naturalization, namely: structure, narrator, titles and also depends on the most important physical features that help to naturalize also: reality and fantasy, the individual and the public, motivations of writing. The research analyses and compares the features of Mina's trilogy with those of three different genres: biography, the biographical novel, and the novel