Les partis pris d'écriture du discours dans la bande-dessinée La Vie secrète des jeunes de Riad Sattouf : un effet de réel du langage de la jeunesse ? The author managed to corrupt the innocent voice of the narrator (a child) by showing him to be nothing more than a racist. In 2010, Angoulême International Comics Festival's Prize for Best Album for Pascal Brutal, volume 3, Plus fort que les plus forts (Fluide Glacial). Like Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future (yep, weird title!

Riad is the eldest son of Clémentine, a reserved French woman, and Abdul-Razak Sattouf, a flamboyant Sunni-Syrian man. Although he is one of the youngest winners at 44 years old, the film director ( Les Beaux Gosses, or The French Kissers in English, 2009) has built an impressive and brilliant portfolio that includes 35 publications. Written with tenderness, grace, and piercing clarity, The Arab of the Future is one of those books that transcend their form to become a literary masterpiece. Basic line drawings are black and white, and a general color tint signifies the location of the events. 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.Parce qu’une autre personne (ou vous) est en train de lire Le Monde avec ce compte sur un autre appareil. Je suis tellement contente d'avoir découvert Riad Sattouf avec L'Arabe Du Futur plutôt qu'avec ses premières publications : Je pense que je les aurais détesté à l'époque et que je n'aurais pas cherché à découvrir ses publications suivantes. At this point in the book, the inner voice bubble turns white and is thereafter inhabited only by Riad.

As Riad grows from toddler to school-aged kid to college student, his perceptions of the world change. Observant and filled with the type of 'shock of culture' that so often is not considered relevant when trying to understand national identification. One day, he picks up one of the books, and realizes that his is able to decipher words from the squiggles. The Arab Of The Future reminds us that, in talented hands, graphic novels are capable of carrying the weightiest themes, making us think, and touching our hearts while also keeping us hugely entertained.In 2003: Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for Les pauvres aventures de Jérémy, volume 1, Les jolis pieds de Florence. It sounds just about what you might expect with Qaddafi in charge, only even worse than you could imagine.

I am very much looking forward to both the second part of this memoir and many more comics by Sattouf that are hopefully already being translated into English and other languages as I am typing this. With a Syrian father and French mother, the small family travels across Europe as his father gets work as an associate professor in Tripoli, Libya, during Gaddafi’s reign, before briefly jumping to Brittany, France, and ending up in nightmarish Syria under Hafez al- Assad. Sattouf, whose mother is French and father is Syrian, zigzagged his way through childhood, moving between his parents’ respective homelands as well as Libya.The comedic Pascal Brutal series imagines France of the near-future as an anarchic, neoliberal dystopia where the hero's outlandish machismo is given free rein. This book endeavors to show the truth--most dictators are flawed, weak men who happened to be at the right place at the right time. It is not often that we get an insider look into the lives of ordinary people from these parts of the world, and I hope the author's other works will also be translated into English. C'était touchant de voir cette histoire familiale très dure prendre enfin un peu corps émotionnellement, l'âge et la psychothérapie aidant, ça change de la distance déconcertante avec laquelle les événements parfois très durs sont racontés dans les premiers volumes, et on la comprend mieux.

The only educated member of his Syrian family, he comes across as charming, funny, eccentric, bull-headed, tragic, conflicted, and strict. Un roman graphique o Riad Sattouf raconte sa jeunesse dans la Libye de Kadhafi et la Syrie d Hafez alAssadN en 1978 d un pre syrien et d une mre bretonne Riad Sattouf grandit d abord Tripoli en Libye o son pre vient d tre nomm professeur Issu d un milieu pauvre fru de politique et obsd par le panarabisme AbdelRazak Sattouf lve son fils Riad dans le culte des grands dictateurs arabes symboles de modernit et de puissance virileEn 1984 la famille dmnage en Syrie et rejoint le berceau des Sattouf un petit village prs de Homs Malmen par ses cousins il est blond cela n aide pas le jeune Riad dcouvre la rudesse de la vie paysanne traditionnelle Son pre lui n a qu une ide en tte que son fils Riad aille l cole syrienne et devienne un Arabe moderne et duqu un Arabe du futurL Arabe du futur sera publi en trois volumes Ce premier tome couvre la priode 19781984. An international publishing phenomenon, the six published volumes of The Arab of the Future have already sold more than 3. When portrayed through the eyes of a child, however, these unfortunate realities become approachable—even for people who normally avoid uncomfortable or controversial subject matter.We had really, really mixed opinions about it — this book has such an intense realism, illuminating lands with which none of us are familiar, but it does so in a remarkably damning, ugly way. The flood of rich, detailed, authentic, often completely unexpected observations is both disturbing and mesmerizing, thanks in part to the clever narrative strategy of presenting them from a vague through-the-eyes-of-a-child-yet-filtered-through-adult-awareness perspective that does not appear to have any agenda whatsoever: it appears to do little more than taking in all kinds of weirdness with wide-open eyes, though ultimately, of course, it does provide a critique of both Arab-Muslim and Western attitudes and lifestyles. The author speaking of his father: "In 1967 he had been devastated by the Six Day War, when Egypt, Jordan and Syria were crushed by the Israelis. Moving into filmmaking, he directed his first film entitled Les Beaux Gosses (also known by its English title The French Kissers). We handle foreign rights on behalf of an exciting variety of publishers, literary agents and a select number of authors from around the world.