The Poetics of Madness - A Reading of Mamdouh Adwan Autobiography

Authors

  • Ishtar Dawoud Mohammed Department of Arabic Language, College of Education for Girls, University of Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.16.57.1.1

Keywords:

Memory, Dialogues, Mamdouh Adwan, Nostalgia, Madness, Biography, Bachlar Dream, Poetry

Abstract

The autobiographical documents spread among the dialogues under monitoring have a parallel structural fabric that unites them internally and makes them a single mass that stands parallel to his
creative achievement in general, with its rich and diverse forms, which pour into a single theme. His dialogues summed up all of what he wanted to say, with great intensity, preparing the reader for
the astonishment of the world of madness that it would take him to, and then he found himself wandering among them, moving from madness to madness, from astonishment to astonishment. Until he reaches the peak of dispersion and harmony together at the conclusion of the dialogues, which leads him to reconstruct the dialogues reading, and to come up with a vision that changes the course of the disruption caused by madness in the mind, forming between the intellectual and his world, through that contract concluded between the writer and the reader.

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Published

2026-01-31

How to Cite

The Poetics of Madness - A Reading of Mamdouh Adwan Autobiography. (2026). Journal of Al-farahidi’s Arts, 16(57, 1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.25130/jaa.16.57.1.1