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Flying Outside The Flock: A Kafkaesque Reading Of The Novel (The Taste Of The Wolf) By The Kuwaiti Writer Abdullah Al-Busais, Suad Abdullah Alenzi

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب

The experience of Kuwaiti writer and auther Abdullah Al-Busais is remarkable for its originality and creative ability to question the intellectual and cultural systems in Gulf societies. Moreover, the novel (Taste of the Wolf) comes to put the issue of the role of social customs and traditions in making human identity in an eloquent, descriptive and anatomical language capable of analyzing social cultural structures. This research discusses the vision of the novel in discussing the impact of traditional societies on their children and on the formation of their identities in the light of Kafka's literature which experienced the same spirit: …