L'Arabe du futur - Volume 6: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1994 - 2011)

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He’s no longer living so we may never know unless Sattouf has insights that he plans to share some day.

Abdul-Razak appears particularly conflicted over religion; he prefers to describe himself as a secular modernizer (he drinks wine, eats pork, and does not pray) but he also exhorts his son to respect God and to learn to read the Qur'an, seemingly motivated by the pressure of his conservative family and Syrian society. Nous retrouvons donc l’auteur dans la peau d’un adolescent qui ne s’aime pas, rasant le bord des trottoirs afin de ne pas croiser les regards. There are plenty of people there who are tired of being watchdogged and want art which freely expresses ideas, including mockery of the wearisome dictators (like Qaddhafi) who have suffocated the region for decades. He shows what is happening, lets his history speak for itself, and it is up to the reader to form his or her opinion. The reader recognizes Abel’s weaknesses, failures, and impotence long before the 20-something Riad—after years of psychoanalysis—realizes he’s no longer plagued by his father’s commentary.He told me ‘I love your books because it’s the same stories as mine… Except that me, when I tell them people say ‘you shouldn’t exaggerate like that’… so now I can say: have you read l’Arabe du futur?

Son grand-père maternel soutient, quant à lui, son désir de suivre des cours dans une grande école d’arts parisienne. The details are salient and feel real, but a lot of the bigger context is missing; possibly purposely since Sattouf himself wouldn't have had context beyond snippets of news and overheard adult conversation at the time. Red is regularly applied to loud speech, danger and violence, while non-verbal noises (hisses and growls, for example) are green. Yet, by the time he was enrolled in a French high school, the odds of success seemed stacked against him.By the end of the book she has secured a divorce and legal custody of the children, though Abdul-Razak is still appealing the decision. Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi has abolished private property, meaning all unoccupied housing is free for the taking. Volume 6 of L’Arabe du Futur, begins in 1994 while Sattouf is still in high school and ends in 2011, shortly after the author received the prize for best album of 2010 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.