Gros discomfort at the end of the reading of "the Arab of the Future", the pavement of Riad Sattouf yet eaten in two hours: written by another (especially a "Gallic"), we would be willing to bet that this book happen a pamphlet for the FN! The description of Libyan society is already severe, even if these are through a socialist dictatorship who showed up primarily against ... By chapters on life in Syria, describing a primitive lifestyle to malfunction where no feeling "human" never comes illuminate family relations who only translate hatred, jealousy, racism and bigotry primary, prove a reading almost unpleasant, just delayed by humor - as always - effective Sattouf. We understand that the very young Sattouf has lived a real sadness hell during these years, and we suffer with him and for him, but it is ultimately difficult to accept the absolute blackness of these memories, especially since, in Unlike "Persepolis" - the obvious model of its kind - the political perspective here is pretty basic. It probably retort that the vision of a backward and superstitious Britain proves that Sattouf has also scathing with the French than with the Arabs except that the imbalance is flagrant, and that feels no tenderness for this company Syrian literally inhuman, and that "the Arab Future" resembles more to a shot of anti-Arab political pamphlet and anti-Muslim than the chronicle of a difficult childhood. To illustrate this reality or absolute rejection, just see how the father figure is omnipresent here, cowardly father, infantile, irresponsible and inconsistent in his political choice as his family decisions fairly quickly hateful figure of a caricature of the intellectual nickname Arab who has not managed to evolve as far as he thinks of his origins. We understand evil face him complete absence of the mother, which seems to suffer forever without a word of protest or criticism of the humiliating lifestyle that her husband imposed. All this means that, despite the smiles we Sattouf snatches here and there, "the Arabic of the Future" is as distasteful book qu'indiscutablement effective in its narration and drawings.
