The place between myth and reality in iraqi novwls (Jassim Asi as a model)

The art of the novel in our modern age is one of the most important literary arts It identifies with human life and its diaries, and expresses its experiences and details of its, daily life with an artistic vision. The novel is composed of several elements, including: Our research bears a special interest in the place in the novels of the Iraqi creator Jassem Assi, where we have devoted ourselves to research and analysis of a number of his novels, to discover the secrets of the place, whether it is desert, water areas, villages or cities, and we have learned about the secrets of those places and the psychological impressions that these places produce of suffering or stillness. Purity or filth, space or prison, it will be hidden. The novelist Jassem Asi’s choice of the hill and the village reflects the aspect that the city is no longer the womb of fiction or the only place that invades the writer’s consciousness. The novelist Jassem Assi does not reduce the place to linking it to the physical aspect and its dependence on the visual form, i.e. (purely aesthetic) or as a space for narration only, but rather deals with it as nature and space through the penetration in its geographical characteristics and cognitive and emotional references that contribute to the achievement of individual and social identity The novelist Jassem Asi’s choice of the hill and the village reflects the aspect that the city is no longer the womb of fiction or the only place that invades the writer’s consciousness.The novelist Jassem Assi does not reduce the place to linking it to the physical aspect and its dependence on the visual form, i.e. (purely aesthetic) or as a space for narration only, but rather deals with it as nature and space through the penetration in its geographical characteristics and cognitive and emotional references that contribute to the achievement of individual and social identityThe place in the novel has its permanent presence, no matter how much we try to hide it or hide it, as for time, language, and the latest its presence. The sense of place is the result of the reflection of objective reality on the artist’s imagination The place is not a border, it is part of the artistic construction process .