The literary text is born with its criticism methodology and its criticizer. The creator
stretches his hands out to the reader/criticizer to take their first step towards the text
and remove any ambiguity, symbolism, or metaphors that may be present.
He extends bridges between him and the society that produced the text, or bluff to
find the psychological relationship to these productions. However, these contextual
approaches are helpless in the face of postmodern prose poetry, where meaning
becomes like shifting sands or a mirage in a barren desert. Every time the
reader/criticizer thinks he has grasped some parts of the text, others slip away,
making the process very difficult.
In this context comes the poem “Abu Arwas” by the poet Abd Jlil Ould Hammouya, in
which Arwas becomes the Amazigh word for solemn speeches and the semantic
center of a poetic flow that is immersed in its surrealism …..