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

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The Syrian boys Sattouf met were like “little men,” intimidatingly fluent in the rhetoric of warfare. The first Arabic word he learned from them was yehudi, “Jew.” It was hurled at him at a family gathering by two of his cousins, who proceeded to pounce on him. Fighting the Israeli Army was the most popular schoolyard game. The Jew was “a kind of evil creature for us,” Sattouf told me, though no one had actually seen one. (Sattouf writes, “I tried to be the most aggressive one toward the Jews, to prove that I wasn’t one of them.”) Another pastime was killing small animals: the first volume of “The Arab of the Future” concludes with the lynching of a puppy." 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.

Dans le premier tome, Riad décrit la rencontre de ses parents et leur installation en Libye, puis au village de Ter Maaleh en Syrie. Il pose les bases des thématiques principales de la série: l'image du père, le contexte géopolitique au Moyen-Orient de l'époque et le contraste entre les cultures et traditions européennes et orientales. 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. Activité 5 : Conjugaison, mots fléchés sur les temps du récitActivité 6 : PE, racontez L'arabe du futur Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future." Early in the story, the elder Sattouf proclaims, "I'd change everything among the Arabs. I'd force them to stop being bigots, to educate themselves, and to enter into the modern world. I'd be a good President." An international publishing phenomenon, the six published volumes of The Arab of the Future have already sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. Translated into 22 languages, the albums have been awarded multiple prizes, including the Grand prix RTL for graphic novels in 2014, the Fauve d’or (Best Album Prize) at the 2015 international festival of graphic novels in Angoulême and the Los Angeles Times Graphic Novel Prize in 2016.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.

Prix Sproing de la meilleure bande dessinée étrangère 2016 [24 ] pour la version norvégienne ( (no) Fremtidens araber) a et b Cyril Coantiec, « Riad Sattouf remporte le grand prix RTL de la BD 2014», sur lefigaro.fr, 28 novembre 2014 (consulté le 28 septembre 2015).

a b et c (en) Adam Shatz, « Drawing Blood», sur The New Yorker, 19 octobre 2015 (consulté le 27 décembre 2016) The mother, however, is a silent figure - while she protests about the homes they end up living in, she says little about their moving to Syria, or staying there. We don't know about her dreams and desires, nor even about why she married him. mon Pèx"e ~ue \a \"Y''~t'fess~ ~ 'a\lo\t deY'r'oY'dé d 1 o\Jo\~ une c..o\\e"e.ti:e el:.. un Oé''ou'\ \e \e..ndema\\"1 . Conjuguez les verbes au bon temps : présent de l'indicatif, passé simple, imparfait, plus que parfait ou passé composé.