Setting his novel during World War II, Chraïbi opens the door on the protected and well-to- do world of an Arab woman whose role in society is restricted to ...

Upon its release in 1954, the book had the effect of a bombshell, both in France and Morocco, which was fighting for its independence. With a rare violence, ...

Seigneur Haj Ferdi is a very wealthy and powerful aristocratic property-owner in the Moroccan capital city of Casablanca. The aristocrat has grown his ...

"After many years abroad, the narrator, Brahim, with his much beloved Scottish wife and two very peppy boys, returns to his home village, El Jadida, ...

Jan 7, 2020 ... The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author's native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury.

Les Boucs (The Butts) (1955), named for a racist French epithet for North African Arabs settled in Paris, is widely seen as a counterracist call for Arab ...

The dehumanization of the Arabs who emigrated to "Mother France" is the subject of Chraïbi's second novel, echoing Simple Past.

A nonconformist, almost nihilistic in his younger days, Chraibi lets his novels reflect his deep antipathies, not only to France and to Western values, but also ...

The final volume in a trilogy that includes The Flutes of Death and Mother Spring, Birth at Dawn extends to the eighth century the story of the arrival of ...

Front Cover. Driss Chraibi. Denoël, 1955 - 196 pages. Other editions - View all · Les Boucs: roman · Driss Chraïbi Snippet view - 1982. Les boucs: roman · Driss ...