Dying Memory in "Alzheimer" Novel of the Novelist Ghazi al-Gosaibi: A Critical Study
Montaha Harahsheh, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Al al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan.
Younes Allal, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdullah, Fez, Morocco.
Abstract
This study examines the phenomenon of dying memory via "Alzheimer's" novel of the Saudi novelist Ghazi al-Gosaibi. It analyzes various case aspects of patients with Alzheimer, as such patients' psychological, social, physical attitudes through a critic reading in the character "Jacob El-Erian,"; to reveal suffering of patients of " Alzheimer" and their philosophy, and psychological perceptions they have around it, and its eloquent impact on them, and to explain their behavior in their relationship with the various social strata; to understand the nature of mental and neurological patients with this disease, and to detect society's vision of it.
The study, among its main results, concludes that the novel dealt with a social phenomenon that is becoming more prevalent in our current time, which is Alzheimer disease, or what is known dementia disease, through what is dictated by the circumstances of the constraints reflected on human making him a burden on society after he was an active actor, and this is what the writer tried to recommend through the novel that embodies rightly the dilemma of the disease, as well as ways of dealing with its patients , which made us get into the midst of this study; to understand and analyze the psychological aspect of nervous system within the template literary art is packed with payload semantic major can be considered as a message within the community.
Key words: dying memory, critical study.