Riad Sattouf Abdel Razak Sattouf
Clémentine and abdel razak pseudonyms for riad sattouf s parents meet for the first time as students in the paris of 1978.
Riad sattouf abdel razak sattouf. Clémentine from brittany and abdel razak on scholarship from a village in syria. Born 5 may 1978 is a french cartoonist comic artist and film director of franco syrian origin. Despite his education he comes across as naïve boorish and not particularly bright. Sattouf s book investigates authoritarianism as a cultural problem.
The portrait riad sattouf draws of abdel razak is far from flattering. They were both students. Pointing past airborne plastic bags to a half destroyed sugar refinery abdel razak declares this was a forest when i was. Riad sattouf metropolitan books.
Riad sattouf s parents met in the early 1970s in a cafeteria at the sorbonne. Abdel razak himself defended polygamy and at one point sattouf heard his parents whispering about an honor killing in the village.