Driss Chraibi’s Portrait of an Angry Young Man
This episode focuses on Driss Chraibi's The Simple Past (Le Passé Simple), a Moroccan novel about a very angry young man in revolt against his father's tyranny and the hypocrisies of his colonial education. Back in 1954, it was compared to an explosion – and it still packs a punch today.
Show Notes:
The Simple Past was newly re-issued from NYRB Classics in Hugh A. Harter's 1990 translation, with a new introduction from Adam Shatz. Shatz's introduction is available online at the NYR Daily.
Excerpts from Chraibi's interview with Federico Arbós can be found at Fragmentos de la entrevista con…
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