“If I had written a book about a village in southern Italy or Norway, would I be asked about my vision of the European world?” he said. Il étudie les arts appliqués à Nantes et le cinéma d'animation à Paris, à l'école des Gobelins. In Paris, I kept running into people who had just read it, among them a former president of Doctors Without Borders, a young official in the foreign ministry who had worked throughout the Middle East, and an economist for the city of Paris. The Syrian boys Sattouf met were like “little men,” intimidatingly fluent in the rhetoric of warfare. “Riad is a sponge,” the comic-book artist Jul Berjeaut told me. Le tournage a commencé par une séance photo avec elle, pour le faux catalogue de La Redoute. Je les regardais en boucle, j’étais obsédé par La Double Vie de Véronique. 179.6k Followers, 1,108 Following, 361 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Riad Sattouf (@riadsattouf) “It left me uneasy,” he said. “J’ai découvert Irène Jacob dans les films de Kieslowski quand j’étais étudiant. ... As an act of pity, Clémentine shows up for a rendez-vous with Abdel-Razak and soon they are a couple. Irène Jacob, actrice “The problem isn’t Sattouf, who has written a funny and sympathetic book. I was voted the ugliest person in class.” Accused of being a Jew in Syria, he was now gay-baited because of his high voice. Riad watches through the window as his mother remonstrates with the children. We ontmoeten Riad Sattouf in het Centre Pompidou in Parijs, het prestigieuze museum voor moderne kunst. In “The Arab of the Future,” the visual marker of that destiny is his blond hair, the color of his mother’s. In the next volume of “The Arab of the Future,” Sattouf told me, he’ll be writing about an experience no less harrowing than his childhood in Ter Maaleh: his adolescence in France. Le réalisateur, scénariste et auteur-dessinateur de BD, Riad Sattouf, est l'invité d'Ali Baddou à l'occasion de la parution du 4ème tome de la série "L'arabe du Futur" (éditions Allary). The attackers, brothers of Algerian ancestry who were born in Paris, said that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad for the magazine’s mockery of the Muslim faith. “She told a story of dictatorship and revolution, and suddenly she was expected to be an activist.”, I mentioned the controversy to Elias Sanbar, a Palestinian writer and diplomat, who is now Palestine’s ambassador to UNESCO. C’est la plus belle actrice du monde (oui, c’est définitif). “Riad Sattouf has lots of money because his book is a best-seller. A French-Lebanese friend of mine, the screenwriter Joëlle Touma, attributed this to his childhood in Syria. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you've provided to them or that they've collected from your use of their services. I can’t believe it, I am speaking English!” Sattouf immediately shifted to French; he reserves English—to be precise, a caricature of American-accented English—for jokes and impersonations, as if it were intrinsically humorous. This is the first part of Riad Sattouf’s childhood memoirs, The Arab of the Future, and it is superb! Filled with terrible people, youth who want to be "gangsta", couples who will NOT stop kissing each other in public, and adults who will stop at nothing to criticize their children, La vie secrete des jeunes is a compilation of the best and worst of French life. Riad Sattouf est auteur de bandes dessinées et réalisateur. And Sattouf didn’t call the book “The Boy from Ter Maaleh”; he called it “The Arab of the Future.”. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Your California Privacy Rights. When I spoke to Guillaume Allary, Sattouf’s editor, he described the book as a work of almost pure testimony. It was still in shrink-wrap. Exquisite harmony of elegance and decoration, Riad Tarabel is fashioned in the true spirit of old colonial mansions house. Everywhere you looked, the eyes of the President stared down at you from billboards and posters. Tome 4 is coming soon. 19/01/16 17h00 . In 1990, Abdel-Razak and Clémentine separated. By moving back to the Arab world, he hoped to take part in this project, and to rear his son as “the Arab of the future.”, In Libya, the family was given a house but no keys, because the Great Leader had abolished private property; they returned home one day to find it occupied by another family. People in the village, he says, were “beginning to say the Sattoufs were weak” because they had sent to prison “a man who had done nothing but preserve the honor of his family.” We see him turning away from his wife, his hands clasped behind his back. ; The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Once again, it is an endearing, tragi-comic look at the process of growing up. According to Todd, those who refused to abide by this formula—particularly if they were Muslim—were susceptible to accusations that they excused or even condoned the killings. Elle était allongée sur le canapé devant moi. That will teach you never to insult an Algerian businessman!”, Sattouf shares another trait with his father: a sense of destiny. It struck me that there was perhaps a compensatory element to his penchant for adolescent sexual humor. I hate muscular people. Yet that mirage, which Sattouf’s father mistook for the future, is the subject of the memoir. Yves Gonzalez-Quijano, a French scholar of the Arab world, told me that the book’s appeal in France “rests on an unconscious, or partly conscious, racism,” paraphrasing Emmanuel Todd’s thesis about Charlie. One day, as we were walking across a bridge over the Seine, I asked Sattouf how he felt after the attacks. The guy is brilliant: inspired drawings and a wonderful story. His blond hair turned black and curly, and, he recalled, “I went from being an elf to a troll. What he’s written is very personal, a kind of self-analysis, really. Hij had lang een wekelijkse strip in het Franse satirische weekblad Charlie Hebdo. J’ai posé avec elle en couve. Riad Sattouf: A lot of things occur unconsciously when I am developing a story. Ter Maaleh was Abdel-Razak’s home, but he hadn’t been back in seventeen years, and he was nearly as much of a stranger there as his wife, the only woman in the village who didn’t cover herself. Datasets available include LCSH, BIBFRAME, LC Name Authorities, LC Classification, MARC codes, PREMIS vocabularies, ISO language codes, and more. And what was even weirder was that Charlie was being described by people like Emmanuel Todd as this right-wing magazine. After getting his baccalauréat, he studied applied art in Nantes, and then made his way to Paris to study animation at the Gobelins School of the Image. We can’t hear what the other person is saying, but he seems to be either belittling the atrocities or hinting that they were part of a larger conspiracy. Sattouf had long considered writing a book about the Arab world, but the idea for the memoir occurred to him only after the Syrian uprising broke out, in 2011. Subhi Hadidi, a leftist member of the opposition who fled Syria in the late eighties, told me, “Sattouf is faithful to what he sees, and he doesn’t beautify reality.” (He had visited Sattouf’s village and found it “full of militants—Communists, Trotskyists, and Muslim Brothers.”) When I asked the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis, who has been more critical of the rebels than of the regime, what he thought of Sattouf, he said, “Sattouf describes things as they are.” I had dinner with a group of Algerian intellectuals who grew up in socialist Algeria, under the rule of Colonel Houari Boumédiène, and who told me that Sattouf might as well have been writing about their childhood. This was a widespread conviction among French citizens of Muslim origin, but it found little echo in the French press during the weeks after the massacre, when the slogan “Je Suis Charlie,” which began as an expression of solidarity, became something of a test of loyalty—a “ritual formula,” as the sociologist Emmanuel Todd has argued. “I’m fascinated by the desire that women have for stronger men—that’s where my sexual frustration came from,” Sattouf told me. The streets smelled of human excrement. He draws at his desk on Photoshop, facing a wall of bookshelves stacked with comic books and works on Paris photography by Atget and Doisneau. Downtime is a new series that showcases a different side of our favourite DJs. It is not a sumptuous visual style, but it is an effective one, particularly in its evocation of the way in which a child sees the world. Couple Build Amazing Shipping Container Home For Debt-Free Living - Duration: 16:53. The girl’s mother asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. De Gids Het boek van de week en andere aanraders van onze boekenredactie. Al-hamdu lillah! During these years, Sattouf would return to France each summer, spending it with his mother’s family in Brittany. On the first day that we met, Sattouf took me to lunch at Les Comptoirs de Carthage, a canteen in the Marais owned by Kate Daoud, an Englishwoman in her sixties who married a Tunisian and lived in Tunisia for many years before settling in Paris. And the people whose odor I preferred were generally the ones who were the kindest to me. It’s the readers who think they’ve understood a society as complex as Syria because they’ve read a single comic book.” Until the current war, he said, “Syria was a black hole, an Atlantis, in France. “People will be surprised,” he said. There was an old photograph of the Italian actress Valeria Golino, whom he cast in “Les Beaux Gosses,” a hit movie about a provincial high school that he made a few years ago. “The Arab of the Future” provides an unflinching portrait of the frustrations and the brutality that sparked the revolts against the regimes in both Libya and Syria—and of the internal conflicts that have darkened their revolutionary horizons. But this was no ordinary couple—she was quiet and bookish, from a rural town in Brittany, while he was a flamboyant Pan-Arabist from Syria who was out to change the world. “This idea of the Arab world is a mirage, really.” Perhaps it is. The question seemed to startle Sattouf. My memory of Charlie was of Charb going to demonstrations in factories where people were on strike, and shouting, ‘Down with the bosses!,’ singing the ‘Internationale,’ and making free drawings for the workers. Riad SATTOUF (1978, Frankrijk) is een Franse schrijver, striptekenaar en regisseur van Syrische afkomst. The most famous couple in performance art made the ‘Imponderabilia’ work in Bologna, Italy, in 1977 – a groundbreaking performance in many ways, not least in terms of re-imagining the role of the audience. Media in category "Riad Sattouf" The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total. His appearance had insulated him from overt racism in France, his sole experience of which was when, after winning an important comics prize in 2010, he received letters calling him a “dirty Arab.” He said that the very word “Arab” had become highly charged in France; now that the pan-Arabist project is no more, it is purely a racial epithet: “ ‘Arab’ is a word you only hear from racists, as in ‘Ah, those Arabs!’ ” In that sense, the title “The Arab of the Future” has what the sociologist Eric Fassin characterized as “a nostalgic air”: “People in France don’t talk about Arabs; they talk about Muslims.”, In one of our early conversations, Sattouf described his father as having had a “complicated attraction-repulsion relationship to the West.” It often seemed that Sattouf’s relationship to his roots was just as conflicted.