Yet, by the time he was enrolled in a French high school, the odds of success seemed stacked against him.

Early on in their life in Syria, Sattouf watches out a window while a group of kids finds a puppy and then kicks it almost to death before impaling it on a pitchfork. Under Sattouf’s pen, this state of affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he grew up in. Il a publié Les Pauvres Aventures de Jérémie, Manuel du puceau, No sex in New York, Pipit Farlouse, Retour au collège, Pascal Brutal, La Vie secrète des jeunes, Les Cahiers d'Esther, le Jeune acteur et L'Arabe du futur.At the same time, however, Sattouf learned of the Gobelins animation school in Paris whose graduates were purportedly snatched up by Steven Spielberg and guaranteed employment in Hollywood. When portrayed through the eyes of a child, however, these unfortunate realities become approachable—even for people who normally avoid uncomfortable or controversial subject matter.

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Sattouf's father influenced the title of the memoir through his ideal of raising his son as an "Arab of the future. His parents had divorced and his father, Abel, had kidnapped his youngest brother, Fadi, and fled to Syria. Last month, I finished reading the 6th and final book in the graphic novel series, L’Arabe du futur, by Riad Sattouf.The attempt at censorship backfired by attracting far more attention to the then-unknown author than might otherwise have occurred.

We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. Michel Hazanavicius, Academy Award-winning director of The Artist, proclaims “Seriously funny and penetratingly honest, Riad Sattouf tells the epic story of his eccentric and troubled family.Coming from a poor background, passionately interested in politics, and obsessed with pan-Arabism, Abdel-Razak Sattouf raises his son Riad in the cult of the great Arab dictators, symbols of modernity and viril power. 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. 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). Eventually, he gained enough street cred by copying other people’s styles that comics magazine publishers began allowing him to develop his own strips. Purposefully written from the perspective of a child, Sattouf employs simplistic yet comprehensive drawings that are more rudimentary than, yet not entirely dissimilar to, his other works such as La vie secrète des jeunes, his column in the famous satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.