Les histoires macabres qui ont inspiré l’idée de Frankenstein à Bagdad
The son of Baghdad who fathered Iraqi Frankenstein | Arts & Ent , Culture | THE DAILY STAR
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The idea for his book is rooted in what has been Iraq’s grim reality for years. Saadawi recounted two specific incidents that shocked him and inspired him to write “Frankenstein in Baghdad.”
One was in the city of Baqouba when Al-Qaeda in Iraq – nowadays Daesh (ISIS) – kidnapped a man, killed him, and chopped his body into pieces. “They dropped each piece in a different part of Baqouba ... When the city woke up, each neighborhood saw a different body part,” he said. “They made the whole city see the body simultaneously. What criminal genius!”
The other moment that stuck with him was also at the height of last decade’s civil war, when hospitals were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of bodies being brought in after bombings.
The fridges were overflowing and bodies simply lined the corridors. Saadawi told of how one exhausted forensic team “lost their humanity.”
“One day someone came asking about his brother ... they told him that all the bodies had already been collected by their families, except for these pieces,” he said. “There were mismatched, unclaimed ... body parts and they told him to assemble a man from them and take it away.”