The Tragedy of Defeats and Disappointments in the City of Bou Saada through the NOVEL "Arbaewn eaman fi aintizar Iizabil" by Saïd Khatibi

Abstract

This study seeks to discovering the tragic image that Saïd Khatibi painted the city of Bou Saada Through his novel "Arbaewn eaman fi aintizar Iizabil", as the novelist will present glimpses and flashes of the life of the Swiss oriontalist Isabelle, who passed through Bou Saada, and through forty years, the hero of the novel, Sheikh Joseph,  also spent in this city. Khatibi painted a picture full of sorrow, disappointment, and defeats for Bou Saada, which constituted a decisive spatial station in the path of the heroses of his novel, As the time frame of Isabelle's passage in this city coincided with the French occupation of Algeria, as well as the last decade of the life of his hero Joseph coincided with the beginning of the embers years experienced by Algeria,  therefore he depicted for us a city with miserable features that lived on the impact ofdefeats and disappointments.