Which makes me feel a) like my smart ladyfriends are right on the pulse of the philosophy and cultural criticism of the moment, but also that b) there is nothing new under the sun, and we are all only ever parroting things we've read and then drawing the same conclusions everyone else does when they digest the same thoughts from the same sources. C'est l'occasion de faire un portrait à la fois tendre et mais sans concession de son père, fervent partisan du nationalisme arabe, rempli d'espoirs et de rêves, mais aussi plein de préjugés contre l'"Autre", extrêmement raciste et revanchard, de culture Méditerranéenne, attachant une grande importance à la force et la virilité, mais aussi aux traditions, tout en aspirant au changement; un homme pétri de contradictions, qu'il aime tout en regardant ses défauts en face. Most of the more horrific aspects are somewhat glazed over; the stories are told through the eyes of Sattouf as tiny kid.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He asked that his name be removed from the list and be replaced with a female author, such as the Japanese artist Rumiko Takahashi or Julie Doucet. Once the narrative shifts to Syria though you understand why his father is this way - THIS is where he grew up? The family travels to the Bailiwick of Jersey to retrieve Abdul-Razak's Libyan salary, in cash, from his offshore bank account.While all of the volumes of L’Arabe du futur are personal, book 6 shows the author at his most vulnerable. L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite et dessinée par Riad Sattouf. I tore through two volumes of “The Arab of the Future,” by Riad Sattouf — it’s the most enjoyable graphic novel I’ve read in a while.

This book gives us a micro-view of complex and continuing barriers when identifying normative behavior from differing cultural perspectives. He shows what is happening, lets his history speak for itself, and it is up to the reader to form his or her opinion. Il est également cinéaste (Les beaux gosses, César du meilleur premier film ; Jacky au royaume des filles).There’s a wizardry behind both his writing and drawing that yields a world rich with meaning and insinuation. Die Geschichte ist trocken, detailreich und liebevoll erzählt und gezeichnet, dabei entsteht viel Humor. His parents had divorced and his father, Abel, had kidnapped his youngest brother, Fadi, and fled to Syria. Under Sattouf’s pen, this state of affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he grew up in.

DNF'd because the font is so tiny that all my concentration was on reading the text and not the meaning and so I could never get into it. Barely passing in several classes, Sattouf was plagued with a scourge of social, familial, and all-too-real headaches.A teenager which is all the more complicated as he is torn between his two cultures – French and Syrian – and his parents no longer get along. An autobiography of the author’s childhood with a French mother and a Syrian father in graphic novel format. Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as his father is flamboyant.