Laughter in the experience (My life story) of Charlie Chaplin

Author's name: Adel Ait Azkagdar Publisher: Al-Ain for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Brief about the book: Charlie Chaplin, that familiar small-sized person, pale-faced, who walked with a deliberate gait, seen wearing a recognizable outfit, a worn black hat, loose wide trousers, large shoes, and a cane he leaned on, his stature modest and stocky, with firm and steady features, making his small mustache a striking feature of his bright, shining, and famous face. He used it as a means of play, placing it just below the nose without any ends, to make it look like a "funny and mocking mustache." In addition to his hat, cane, shabby suit, and mismatched shoes, each shoe pointing in opposite directions. I believe that Hitler might have borrowed this mustache from him, which remained for a period a symbol of masculinity and a fashion trend. It is true that it was not a huge or broad mustache, but a mustache for two contradictory men, one cunning and powerful, who shook the world and destroyed it with his mustache. Meanwhile, the other— with the same mustache— sought to bring happiness to the world, restore its balance, and build its civilization on the ruins beneath it. Furthermore, this book, which was partly awarded the (Moroccan Writers Union Award for Young Writers 2014), attempts to highlight some humorous aspects, with the goal and focus on looking from the balcony of satire and its purposes, touching on manifestations of humor and its radiance, and how it functions within it, with the psychological pleasures it provides, the noble goals, and the profound noble aims it seeks to achieve, to explore a different new face of Chaplin beyond the usual image of him as a comedian. At the same time, it aims to present various aspects of his personality, and diverse opinions and stances regarding many issues and various matters, closely related in one way or another to his life, his experience, his relationships with others, his convictions, feelings, tendencies, and the human aspects that marked his life journey, distinguished his creativity, and prolonged his suffering—before surpassing the threshold of poverty, healing the wounds of childhood, and embracing success and fame, and beyond, to many other surprises presented in his interesting, enjoyable, beautiful, and long autobiography.