The Simple Past

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

Translated by Hugh A. Harter

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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Weight 0.000000
Author Chraibi, Driss
Availability TOS
Department Literature
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781681373607
Pages 172
Published 07/01/2020
Publisher New York Review Books
Section Literature
Series New York Review Books Classics
Size Unfolded 203x127mm
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