The Self-Rescue in the Story of the only Solution by Abdo Khal

(A semiotic and hermeneutical reading)

Abstract

This study dealt with the rescue of the self in the story of the only solution by Abdo Khal through a semiotic interpretational reading. The research aimed to stand on this story; because it is crowded with a set of reductive flashes, and signs that indicate self-formations with which the self tries hard to seize moments of disclosure, full of psychological connotations, in a desire to rescue itself, and put an end to its imaginary pathological suffering, which was represented in bitterness, and the self-found an effective way to get rid of it by remembering death, so the study focused on semiotic interpretation as a tool, and a critical method; seeking from it to monitor and interpret the signs; perhaps through it can go beyond the connotations of simple structures, and their connotations to the deep ones; to reveal the implicit, and clarify the truth of the signs contained in the text.

The narrative text revealed some signs that revealed the truth of (bitterness and death), and the study showed its deep structures by tracking the semantic and contextual signs. The study revealed that the bitterness that the self-suffers from is nothing but an illusion hidden in an interactive emotional group crowded with negative feelings, represented by intellectual impotence, physical and sensory weakness, and the tearing of the self, and its desire to unite; a desire to reach emotional stability and get rid of its imaginary suffering. The study revealed that death in the story is not the usual death in which the soul leaves the body, but rather it is the self’s desire to get rid of those psychological accumulations that cloud its serenity and make it feel the bitterness of life.