Images of Suffering in Ibrahim Al-Koni's Novel Al- Tabar (A descriptive Analytical Study)

Abstract

The research aims to study suffering and pain in Ibrahim Al-Koni's novel Al-Tabar, through a descriptive and analytical study. The study focuses on the formation of the desert space and its symbolism, and the life of the Tuareg community in southern Libya with all its authoritarian, economic, social and intellectual aspects. The aim of the study was to identify the sources of suffering and pain in the novel by revealing their various images. The suffering varied between physical and spiritual in several forms, standing as a stumbling block in the life of the Tuareg person, embodying his concerns, ambitions, hopes and pains. The study came in an introduction, a preface and three chapters. The preface dealt with the writer's life and a summary of the novel Al-Tabar. As for the three chapters, they embody the images of suffering in the novel Al-Tabar, represented in the social, psychological and physical images