Open AccessThe Sadomasochism in Awwad’s Life and Writing: The First World War Trauma
Author(s) -
Lattee Wisam
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
romanian journal of english studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-0428
pISSN - 1584-3734
DOI - 10.1515/rjes-2018-0009
Subject(s) - sadomasochism , famine , character (mathematics) , literature , first world war , history , art , ancient history , psychoanalysis , sociology , psychology , gender studies , archaeology , human sexuality , geometry , mathematics
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.