Thus, Spoke Cafour: Reading of Al- Sawad Book

Abstract

“The Book of Al Sawad” is the part that Adonis has devoted to Cafour in his famous trilogy: “The Book: Yesterday Place Now, after reviewing Sayf Al Dawla's papers, and the papers of Khawla, to complete the biography of Al Mutanabbi in the book. The recipient's memory has two images for Cafour, paradoxically, two contradictory, the first positive historical witnessed by what was said in the history books, and a satirical poetic picture, Al-Mutanabbi drew it and defined its features, who made his praises in Cafour apparently and inwardly, and what settled in the Arab imagination is the blacks and the black. The researcher in this study seeks to clarify the features of the image that Adonis tried to paint for Cafour in Al Sawad Book, and made it a contrast to that which was mentioned in the history books. Through confessions in which Adonis revealed the most important attitudes in the life of Cafour, and showed his most prominent characteristics, and lifted the veil on the controversial relationship between him and Al-Mutanabbi, which referred praise to stare. The researcher examined the study through a contextual, analytical approach that sees the text in its relations with what is around it and with the world that established it.