محمدجواد پورعابد

The study begins with raising the problematic of character and its relation to the novelist place from the principle that these two elements play a prominent role in the crystallization of the novelist work, and the advantage of this duo is a harmonious relationship is the mutual influence between character and place and other narrative components. Accordingly, the study uses a descriptive-analytical method and, in some cases, historical and psychological methods. Three novels of the Iraqi novelist Sa'ad Mohammad Rahim were selected for its practical side.They namely, "Hymn Woman... twilight sea", "Killing of Bookseller", and "Space for Madness". Hence, this thesis is divided into three parts: firstly, we will go through the history of the Iraqi novel, the biography and works of the writer. In the second part, after expressing the notion of character, its types and dimensions, the narrator and his/her point of view are discussed. But in the third one, after expressing the concept of place and its types, we will try to discover the character’s relationship with dual (closed / open) places, relying on Yuri Lotman's discourse. And regarding Gaston Bachelard's theory, we will find out whether the places are homely or hostile. In addition, the presence of the characters in some moving places, and the spatial alienation of the intellectual is also discussed in this chapter. The results of this study show that characters come in different places with different types and dimensions. The main characters of the story are of the most appearance, while in their complex spiritual dimensions. The novelist deliberately created them as a controversial, alienated, representative of an entire generation intellectual, because the intellectual is the only witness of the past and the present of Iraq. The author uses art techniques such as collage, reportage, monologue and metanarrative in the processing of these characters and connecting them to the places. Therefore, the place in his v