University of Basrah Organizes a Seminar on the Novel Frankenstein in Baghdad by the World-Famous Iraqi Writer Ahmed Al-Saadawi
The Basra and Arabian Gulf Studies Center organized a seminar entitled "A Study of Marginal Significance in the Novel Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi".
The seminar, in which Dr. Ammar Jameel Al-Salami lectured, addressed the concept of marginal significance as a term used in literature and sociology to refer to meanings and symbols that appear on the edges or margins, and express experiences and circumstances that are usually outside the circle of main interest or the center of society. This significance relates to individuals or phenomena that are marginalized or excluded from the social and political space, and are not given sufficient attention in official or central narratives.
The seminar reviewed the importance of the novel, which was reprinted about (14) times due to the edition being sold out in the markets and translated into several international languages. It won the Man Booker International Prize in London in 2018, and the International Booker Prize for Arabic Fiction in Abu Dhabi. The events revolve around the hero, the hardware seller Hadi Al-Atak, who collects the bodies of the victims of the Baghdad bombings in 2005 to create a strange human being who works to take revenge on his killers - inspired by - the famous international novel in the nineteenth century by the science fiction writer Mary Shelley.
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