Ali Khezri

Textual Documentation is a Mechanism that opens the way to enter the realm of text and discover its meanings and then organizes the reader’s experiences in relation to the literary text within the textual spaces. This Mechanism was introduced by the German thinker “Wolfgang Iser” as a strategy that aids the reader in understanding literary texts. Iser emphasizes that a text dose not arise from empty spaces; rather, every text has an archive, which is a collection of necessary events that facilitate the communicative connection between the text and its reader. The archive of a text organizes the reader’s allows the reader to shape reference backgrounds according to the present age. It means that the process of producing texts does not emerge or operate from nothing or from empty spaces, but rather takes shape from a solid framework of values, norms, and standards. In the article, Sa'ad Muhammad Rahim using a descriptive-analytical method. His narratives are recognized for their unique characteristics and are considered unparalleled in terms of literary and technical aspects. Our examination of these two narratives revealed that Rahim has attempted to engage the reader through textual archiving and textual strategies, with the condition that reader is familiar with the prior knowledge of the narrative text to the extent that they can interpret the implications of the text and establish appropriate connections with them. Rahim deliberately employs elements of textual archiving, such as social, literary, historical and Quranic contexts in the narratives of his works. His aim in doing so is to express love for his homeland and to recount the tragic events that have befallen Iraq, as well as to describe the sufferings that war has imposed on his compatriots for the reader.