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Sattouf's childhood is the stage on which the events of the novel play out. From the nascent regime of Gaddafi to the more insidious, but no less dangerous regime of Assad, Sattouf uses an acerbic humour to explore life in three dictatorships, two political and the third under his increasingly despotic father; whilst the former two are far more dangerous and have a far bigger impact on the wider world, the latter defines the small world which defines Sattouf's childhood. Smell is also vividly represented throughout the novel. The young Riad associates new places and especially new people with their smells, ranging from perfume and incense to sweat, spoiled food, and flatulence. These odors tend to convey the quality of relationships, with Sattouf explaining, "the people whose odor I preferred were generally the ones who were the kindest to me. I find that’s still true today.” [2] Critical reception [ edit ] Relisez les cases ci-dessus et expliquez la réaction du père de Riad. Comment réagit-il face aux problèmes de son pays ?6) Quels problèmes rencontre la Syrie selon la planche et ces cases ?7) Que pensez-vous de la réaction des personnages et de la manière dont ils sont confrontés aux conditions de vie difficiles en Syrie ? 8) Comment sont représentés les habitants de Homs dans cette planche ? Le père qui pense que la dictature dans les pays arabes est obligatoire si on veut exploiter tout le potentiel de cette population , bigote et feignante.

Abdul-Razak obtains a teaching job in Syria and the family moves to his hometown Teir Maalah, near Homs. Riad encounters severe bullying, in which two cousins accuse him of being Jewish and mercilessly torment him—seemingly because of his blond hair and foreign mother. The cousins' enmity appears to be entangled with a financial dispute between their father and Riad's father. Riad also witnesses strict segregation of genders and sects, media censorship, animal abuse, corruption, poor sanitation, and crippling poverty. Riad befriends Wael and Mohammad, two other cousins who teach him Syrian Arabic; they try to protect him from the two bullies, who are their uncles though around the same age. Riad observes the cult of personality surrounding Hafez al-Assad, who he sees as more sinister than Libya's Gaddafi. Abdul-Razak wants Riad to begin school, but Clémentine fears he is too young—then forbids it entirely after witnessing a group of boys torture and kill a puppy for sport. In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation. It might be said, though, that the emulation of other people's behavior is one of the themes of the novel. Little Riad is encouraged by the Syrian women in his family's circle to engage in violent play with other boys, and he finds it enjoyable. The children around him emulate adults' violent behavior. Ideas seem to travel around, transmitted from mind to mind.

Sattouf is choosing what to tell us about his upbringing with the consciousness of an adult. He shows the peculiarities of early education in France, and Syria. Both have failures, as a system. It’s a wonder we survive at all, but less surprising that we exhibit the flaws we do. He has a finely honed skill for cutting away the extraneous, and revealing the kernel of his experience. He makes it laughable, but at heart, it is also terrifying. In Arabic, the names Riad and Sattouf had what he described as “an impressive solemnity.” In French, they sounded like rire de sa touffe, which means “laugh at her pussy.” When teachers took attendance, “people would burst out laughing. It was impossible for a girl to date a guy whose name meant ‘I laughed at your pussy.’ ” As a result, he said, “I lived a very violent solitude. " J'ai vraiment aimé cette BD , on sent un sens d'observation hors du commun , un don précoce pour le dessin aussi The Arab of the Future tells the story of Riad Sattouf’s childhood in the Middle East. The first volume (2014) covers the period from 1978 to 1984: from birth to the age of six, little Riad is shuttled between Libya, Brittany and Syria. The second volume (2015) tells the story of his first year of school in Syria (1984-1985). The third volume (2016) sees him between the ages of six and nine, the time he becomes aware of the society he is growing up in (1985-1987). The fourth volume is significantly longer (288 pp.), and from what has been revealed (an overthrow of their father’s power) it appears to be the most dramatic yet. La réception critique dans le monde est excellente [15 ]: le tome 2 est élu «roman graphique du mois» par le journal anglais The Guardian [16 ] et le New York Times le qualifie d' «artistiquement exceptionnel» [17 ].Aside from overt sexism by the father (example: he's upset at the idea his pregnant wife might have a girl), the story is disturbing and depressing from a woman's perspective. After the mother massively edits the father's college work - basically doing it for him - so he can graduate, the father applies for jobs in Lybia without informing his wife, and then drags her there to a place where she can't speak the language, can't find a job, has nothing to read, no friends, and is trapped in the home all day because to go outside (even for a brief walk) would mean you would lose your home to someone else. She is in countless frames ironing clothing. The funny thing about autobiographies, even when they're about distant lands and people we don't know much about, is that they're still subjective and personal. You can't write an autobiography that will present the entirety of the world around you objectively. You cannot represent your whole society all by your lonesome. Somehow, the narrative is both very funny and very sad, though the fact that this book even exists shows that a boy’s artistic gifts were finally permitted to flourish. […] Subtly written and deftly illustrated, with psychological incisiveness and humor. —Kirkus *Starred Review* L'auteur raconte son enfance , né d'un père Syrien et d'une mère française d'origine bretonne , avec la particularité qu'il va passer sa petite enfance d'abord en Lybie , puis dans la Syrie d’Hafez al Assad . Dans le troisième tome, Riad met l'accent sur les différences culturelles entre l'Orient et l'Occident: il évoque les évènements religieux comme Noël et le Ramadan, la question de la religion d'une façon générale (aussi bien musulmane que chrétienne) et le contexte de sa circoncision [2 ].

Dans les premiers tomes, Riad avait une certaine fascination pour son père, dans ce dernier tome, il n'en a plus...sa sortie, le premier tome connait un succès critique [8 ]. Il remporte différents prix, dont le Fauve d'or d’Angoulême [9 ]. The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf". thearabofthefuture.com . Retrieved 2016-11-02. In the same vein as Maus by Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, The Arab of the Future is an autobiographical and political graphic novel. Raised by a paranoid Syrian father who dreamed of being a dictator, it is with devastating humor and great sensitivity that Riad Sattouf talks about his childhood and the story of his family in the Libya of Mouammar Kadhafi and the Syria of Hafez el Assad. The most ambitious and most accomplished work by Riad Sattouf, The Arab of the Future is long-awaited by the press and the public.

Sonia Déchamp, « La véritable épopée de l' Arabe du futur», Les Cahiers de la bande dessinée, n o5,‎ octobre-décembre 2018, p.126-129 Mais surprise! Son père est revenu, sans prévenir, en exhibant une fausse montre en diamants ( cadeau d'un membre de la famille Saoudienne?) Par contre l'évocation de sa vie est l'occasion pour l'auteur de mettre en avant sa sensibilité et sa personnalité, et cet arabe du futur, appelé de ses vœux par son père, offre de multiples dimensions. Jean-Pierre Filiu, « L'Arabe du futur: Riad Sattouf raconte la Syrie et la Libye de son enfance», Rue89,‎ 29 mai 2014 ( lire en ligne) Le cinquième tome relate la vie de sa famille après l'enlèvement de Fadi, son plus jeune frère, par son père. Riad raconte le déchirement entre sa vie «d'adolescent» englobant ses questionnements sur son avenir, son cercle social et sa découverte du sentiment amoureux, et sa vie de famille marquée par l'enlèvement de Fadi, les moyens mis en œuvre pour le retrouver et l'image du père salie.Translated into 17 languages, The Arab of the Future is a publishing phenomenon that doesn’t overwhelm the reader, who feels Riad Sattouf personally takes them by the hand to explore his childhood – Spirou a b et c (en) Adam Shatz, « Drawing Blood», sur The New Yorker, 19 octobre 2015 (consulté le 27 décembre 2016) Enfin , pas de plaisir en BD si les dessins ne plaisent pas. Ici, des dessins sobres et des textes de taille idéale , ne surchargeant pas l'ensemble. Like its predecessor, this installment is deceptively simple in tone and style….Sattouf’s ability to convey his father’s character with just a few lines never ceases to amaze….Under Sattouf’s pen, this state of affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he grew up in. — NPR As you would expect, it’s mostly focused on Riad and his family but we also learn what life was like in these countries at the time as well. For example Libya under Gaddafi where housing was free to all - like a bizarre game of finders keepers, you found somewhere that was empty and moved in! - and the basic foods that were doled out to everyone because supermarkets didn’t exist. It was a third world country and, reading the excerpts from Gaddafi’s Green Book here, it’s easy to see why conditions were so bad when this lunatic was running the show!