محمدجواد پورعابد

Iraqi post-2003 novels benefited from the environment that deals with the challenges, emerging from various types of violence, such as killing people based on ethnicity. Accordingly, Iraqi novelist, Sa'ad Mo?ammad Rahim, released his masterpiece, Maqtal b?i‘a al-kutob )Bookseller killed) and highlighted character and place in that novel, establishing a harmonic relationship among them, so that his novel could reflect, in a panoramic view, some layers of the post-changed Iraq and some parts of human suffering and changes in the place resulting from the occupation consequences. The present study uses an analytical descriptive method to focus on the main character, in order to uncover the artistic delicacies used in processing and linking it to a variable place. He considered as a biographical one, because his biography forms a major part of the novel. The place is also considered variable, because the current conditions have affected it and changed its appearance. The study shows that The novelist uses the artistic techniques to process the main and full-dimensional character, Ma?moud al-Marzouq and to link it to the variable places, and in particular in open/closed ones. Due to the relationship between personality and place, the character is evolving with the present Place and is revolving with the changes of its portrait.