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The simple past / by Driss Chraïbi ; introduction by Adam Shatz ; translated by Hugh A. Harter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: New York Review Books classicsPublisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2019]Description: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781681373607 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Passé simple. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 843/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ3989.C5 P313 2019
Contents:
Basic elements -- Transition period -- The reagent -- The catalyser -- Elements of synthesis.
Summary: "The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, also known as Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chraïbi's classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and trying against the odds to find a voice of your own, to fight free"--
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Basic elements -- Transition period -- The reagent -- The catalyser -- Elements of synthesis.

"The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, also known as Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chraïbi's classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and trying against the odds to find a voice of your own, to fight free"--

In English, translated from the French.

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