<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper focuses on the Sadomasochism of the Lebanese novelist, poet and diplomat Tawifq Yusuf Awwad, due to the horrible childhood which has shaped his character. When the First World War broke out he was three years old, and when the terrible famine killed two-thirds of the people of Mount Lebanon in 1916 he witnessed these scenes of death, I attempt to investigate how such scenes affected on his life and depicted in his early writings.</p></abstract>

The paper focuses on the Sadomasochism of the Lebanese novelist, poet and diplomat Tawifq Yusuf Awwad, due to the horrible childhood which has shaped his character. When the First World War broke out he was three years old, and when the terrible famine killed two-thirds of the people of Mount Lebanon in 1916 he witnessed these scenes of death, I attempt to investigate how such scenes affected on his life and depicted in his early writings.

The Sadomasochism in Awwad’s Life and Writing: The First World War Trauma

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The paper focuses on the Sadomasochism of the Lebanese novelist, poet and diplomat Tawifq Yusuf Awwad, due to the horrible childhood which has shaped his...

The Sadomasochism in Awwad’s Life and Writing: The First World War Trauma

Publicado en línea: 18 ene 2019

Páginas: 59 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0009

Palabras clave
Childhood, Famine, Masochism, Sadism, the First World War

© 2019 Lattee Wisam, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Sadomasochism in Awwad’s Life and Writing: The First World War Trauma

Publicado en línea: 18 ene 2019

Páginas: 59 - 66

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0009

Palabras claveChildhood, Famine, Masochism, Sadism, the First World War

© 2019 Lattee Wisam, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Palabras clave
Childhood, Famine, Masochism, Sadism, the First World War