The Place in the World of the Novelist Maysaloun Had

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the place in the world of the novelist Maysaloun Hadi. In order to deal with its dialectic influence in relation to the characters, the place was divided according to the visions of the characters in two parts: the familiar and uncommon place; the place in her world includes : the interior space/ the homeland, outer space / The countries of alienation. The novelist gave the city a large area in the map of her novels with her attention to the neighborhood, which is part of the city, and its attention to the streets, roads, houses, rooms, and private places, such as: places of worship (mosques or churches), and all these places represent the limits of the sensory world that the character lives in, as well as the novel has not only dealt with the place on the basis of being rigid geometrical dimensions subject to the vision of physical engineering, but the place in her world as a drama which is influenced by conflicts. The limits of its spatial circle inside as she interested in is limited to the capital of Baghdad, its neighborhoods, suburbs and transformations, with little care in the rest of the cities that do not match the capital of Baghdad. The study has appealed the textual formation by the analytical method; for the purpose of detecting the indications inherent in spatial efficiency as well as the use of a set of references to the narrative of criticism, and only Allah leads to prosperity.

Keywords

: Place, world, novelist