L'Arabe du futur - volume 1 - (1): Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978-1984)

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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.

It was strange, later, to read the New Yorker profile of Sattouf from a few years ago, because it contends with all those subjects and issues too. 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. I dunno. Au niveau graphique, la magie opère toujours et le dessin colle bien au scénario. Et toujours ce style très expressif mais d'une efficacité exemplaire. Quand on aime, on aime. Mais surprise! Son père est revenu, sans prévenir, en exhibant une fausse montre en diamants ( cadeau d'un membre de la famille Saoudienne?) Le ton est évidemment beaucoup moins léger que dans les 3 tomes précédents (Riad enfant) qui avaient tous un beau parfum nostalgique et "fonctionnaient" avec un humour magnifiquement pudique, tendre et cruel... et surtout efficace. 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!A travers les yeux du gamin, nous découvrons la pauvreté de ces pays, la haine des Occidentaux, sa difficulté de s'adapter vu sa différence physique et culturelle.

Dans les premiers tomes, Riad avait une certaine fascination pour son père, dans ce dernier tome, il n'en a plus...Riad’s Syrian father, Abdul-Razak, is the first of his family to read and is (therefore?) considered a great scholar in Syria. He is sent to study history at the Sorbonne and manages to wed an unworldly French student, Clementine, who is studying in Paris. Clementine is from a small village in Brittany and when they both graduate, Abdul-Razak accepts a position teaching in Tripoli, Libya. You have got to read this to enjoy it. I don’t want to spoil your fun. It sounds just about what you might expect with Qaddafi in charge, only even worse than you could imagine. L'Arabe du futur de Riad Sattouf remporte le Los Angeles Times Book Prize», sur L'Obs (consulté le 12 avril 2016) The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Memoir by Riad Sattouf". thearabofthefuture.com . Retrieved 2016-11-02. Le ton, a contrario des situations traversées, est léger et évocateur d'un passé familial aimant et soudé et ce, malgré l'âpreté des environnements rencontrés. Arnaud Mulpas, Nassim Aziki et Riad Sattouf, « Riad Sattouf présente L'Arabe du futur 4 sur RTL», RTL,‎ 26 septembre 2018 ( lire en ligne)