تمظهرات الخطاب الساخر في مجموعة "الطيور لا تنظر خلفها حين تحلّق" القصصية القصيرة جدًا لـ"عبد الرحيم التدلاوي"

The satirical discourse is one of the very mechanisms of the very short story, and it appears in many aspects of the very short story. The study aims to search for manifestations of sarcastic discourse in the very short story in the collections “Birds Don’t Look Back When They Fly “by “Abdul Rahim Al-Tadalawi“.

The study was based on the discourse analysis approach, and concluded that satirical discourse manifests itself in irony and disappointment. This led to the text being characterized by suspense. The sarcastic method that was adopted appeared in the course of events in a way that raises irony, and this is considered one of the very innovations of the very short story.

Keywords: The very short story; the sarcastic speech; the personal irony; the disappointment of the waiting horizon.