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

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Much of his story is dysfunctional, cruel, and disappointing while at the same time tender, resilient, and lighthearted. In addition to the 26 books that he’s both authored and illustrated, he has written and directed 6 animated films and now runs his own publishing company. Par contre, Riad peut compter sur l’affection inconditionnelle de sa grand-mère maternelle et de son compagnon Charles. Ce livre n’est pas sans défauts : il est fait de longueurs qui peuvent lasser et d’une part de silence qui m’a légèrement frustrée, néanmoins c’est un ouvrage bouleversant qui s’articule autour de plusieurs thèmes ( la mauvaise image de soi, la culpabilité, le temps qui passe et la vieillesse qui s’installe).

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.His parents had divorced and his father, Abel, had kidnapped his youngest brother, Fadi, and fled to Syria. 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. When Gaddafi's state of the popular masses declares new laws requiring people of different social classes to swap occupations, Abdul-Razak fears losing his teaching job, and the family leaves Libya in 1982.

One day, he picks up one of the books, and realizes that his is able to decipher words from the squiggles. De tome en tome on découvre la pensée du personnage principal à travers un regard d’enfant, d’adolescent puis de jeune adulte avec une relecture mature des événements passés et de la façon de les raconter. Its electronic music and speech bubbles are green; red is applied to television and the speech of a mythical creature in a folktale. 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. Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future.Although desperate for money, he was only interested in work that would allow him to advance his comics career. The following year, Clémentine and the children again spend the school year in Brittany, then join Abdul-Razak in Syria for the holidays. He describes himself as a “perfect” little boy with "platinum-blonde hair" and “bright puppy-dog eyes. As Riad grows from toddler to school-aged kid to college student, his perceptions of the world change.

Similar jobs followed but Sattouf’s ultimate goal was to author and illustrate his own series, using his own artistic style. Not since Persepolis has a comic book seemed so important, or been so acclaimed… It has an authenticity with which no expert or talking head could ever hope to compete. In this second volume, which covers his first year of school in Syria (1984-1985), he learns to read Arabic, gets to know his father’s side of the family, and does his best to make his father proud by becoming a real little Syrian boy… despite his blond hair and his two weeks’ vacation in France with his mom.Dans ce sixième et dernier album de l’Arabe du Futur, je trouve que Riad nous en apprend davantage sur lui-même, ses tâtonnements d’auteur et ses débuts, que sur sa relation au Moyen-Orient.

Vendue à plus de 3 millions d'exemplaires et traduite en 23 langues, elle raconte l'enfance et l'adolescence de l'auteur, fils aîné d'une mère française et d'un père syrien. Dans ce dernier tome, l'auteur relate son entrée dans la vie adulte : sa vie étudiante, son entrée dans le monde de la bande-dessinée.

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. At the sa e i e, it e plo es the i po ta e of self-ep ese taio a d pe so al e o to the p odu io of hu ou i Satouf s o k a d of a u usual p o i it to the odil hildhood/adoles e t o je t. Barely passing in several classes, Sattouf was plagued with a scourge of social, familial, and all-too-real headaches. Awarded the Fauve d’Or Prize for Best Album of the Year at the Angoulême International Comics Festival + the RTL Prize for Best Comic Strip Book of the Year + the LA Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics! The back cover informs the reader that this volume encompasses Sattouf’s early years of going to school in Syria.