إسهامات أنيس منصور في السيرة الذاتية

Contributions of Anis Mansour in Arabic Autobiography

Abstract

The word biography tells of the method, and the preparation of the path. From ancient times, writers, scholars, and even travelers from the East and West dealt with their life or the life of another person with detailed translation and presented it with clarification and proof to the audience of readers with all sincerity. so that they reveal all its positive or negative aspects. Hence, two types of biography emerge for us. So the biographies are divided into two, self and other The altruistic biography is in which the writer or researcher presents the life of a celebrity, and sheds light on different aspects of his life. As for the autobiography, it is the one that a person tells about himself, and the main difference is the role of the narrator or writer. In the altruistic biography, the narrator or writer is a person who is not the owner of the biography, and in the biography he tells the narrator about himself.

Anis Mansour is an encyclopedic personality with different directions. He was one of the most famous journalists, writers, translators, diplomats, novelists, and travelers. When we see in addition to the contributions of Anis Mansour in this literary field, we find that he has attained a prestigious position and contributed prominently in writing the biography in quantity and quality. Among his writings are about twelve books that shed light on different aspects of his life, some of these books are huge until the number of their pages exceeds seven hundred. In this research, we will shed light on the different colors of his life in his five books of autobiography.