Introducing the writer Laila Abu Zeid
Laila Abu Zeid:
A Moroccan writer, born in 1950 in Rabat, she studied English at Mohammed V University in Rabat and obtained her BA, then she immigrated to the United States of America, and worked in translation and writing... She began her career as a journalist on television, and worked in several ministerial offices, including that of the Prime Minister, Among her books: The Year of the Elephant - The Final Chapter - Back to Childhood - The Stranger - The Director, she lived through the colonial period and this was reflected in her writing, especially in the text of the biography of the novel, Back to Childhood.
Definition of a biography:
Biography is one of the literary arts through which the writer seeks to stop at the most important stations of his life, and it may be a biography in which the writer talks about himself, or a biography in which the writer talks about others. The meanings and real events that she experienced during an important period of her life, namely childhood, pour these meanings into the form and form of a novelist.
Title indication:
"Back to Childhood" The title suggests, before reading the text, that the writer is trying to dig into her memory to search for events that characterized her childhood and remained firmly rooted in her memory and affected her psyche, and may have changed the course of her life, and a person is of the nature of remembering and recalling things that have passed, no matter how negative or Positive, so the title came beginning with the word “return” and one of the characteristics of (return) movement, movement, change of time and place, and renewal of events, as if the writer was moving from her present to her past, to a time other than her time, so the title came as an unknowable object, and one of the characteristics of the negation is negation, as if the writer Although she wrote down past events, this came as if she refused to return to this past that reminds her of tragedies, pains and sorrows, even if she has returned in a creative artistic novel way as if she denies the occurrence of these events in reality, and therefore we see her mixing between biography and novel.
Cover study:
This black and white photograph symbolizes two things: first, it refers to a historical era when the colors had not yet swept the image, and the second is an indication of the sadness that the writer expresses in the chapters of this novel. With these two simple colors, two girls appear in the picture, one of them is growing up and the other is perhaps the writer and her sister Naima looking back as if she is expressing her fear of something that might happen to her. .
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