Kiffe kiffe demain (Le Livre de Poche)

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She was interviewed as if she were someone coming from a ‘no go zone’,” said Allary. “As if she were an alien who had come to talk to us. At the same time, it was obvious that she was intelligent with a sparkling personality, and the articles were very positive, but from her point of view, they had a zoological aspect to them.” It did not surprise me when I read the author’s biography and found that the author experienced the same life she writes about. I don’t know whether it is the translation but this novel reads less like a fictional piece and more like documentary – raw, real and right there, in front of you. Doria’s observations about the hierarchy, the pain of being a girl when your father wanted a boy, wearing clothes that make other people smirk and laugh – these are just so on point. So on point that the line between reality and fictionality blurs significantly. Doria, she gravitates toward thinking of her life in terms of movies, those thoughts are quite funny. At 14, she made her first short film about an adolescent girl imprisoned in the family apartment by an overprotective father and brother. A few years later, in 2002, her mother starred in a documentary short she made about a woman working as a cleaner while trying to raise her three children. Amanda Jacquel, « Grace Ly en lutte contre l’invisibilité des Asiatiques de France», sur Bondy Blog, 6 juin 2018.

en) Mireille Le Breton, « Reinventing the "banlieue" in contemporary urban Francophone literature», Beyond hate: representations of the Parisian Banlieue in literature and film,‎ 2011, pp 131-139 ( ISSN 1557-2277, lire en ligne) .

A travers son histoire Doria livre sans misérabilisme, une image de sa banlieue parisienne, Livry-Gargan, celle de toute une communauté multi-culturelle marquée par le manque de ressources et de considération.

The difference with her parents’ generation and their children’s, says Guène, is that they accepted not being considered French because they hadn’t grown up in France. “But I was told that I was French, a child of the republic. It was an unkept promise.”Ilaria Vitali, Intrangers (I). Post-migration et nouvelles frontières de la littérature beur, Academia (Editions) ( ISBN 978-2-8061-0020-7, lire en ligne) . Guène, herself the child of Algerian immigrants, also grew up in the projects just outside Paris, lending Doria's experiences the ring of gritty truth. You don't have to know much about French history or culture, because Guène explains it all for you beautifully, but if you do know from the Algerian war and the current racism in the banlieues, there's an added layer here to savor. Faïza Guène utilise des mots en verlan, dont l’usage est devenu populaire dans la langue française. Son usage de la langue a souvent interpellé et elle s’en est justifié en ces termes: Her father has returned to his Moroccan birthplace to find a new wife who will provide him with the son he so badly wants. And so mother and daughter are left to subsist on the meagre wages that a woman who doesn’t speak the language can earn as an office cleaner.

Yslande Bossé, « Faïza Guène: «Ma légitimité d’écrivain, je l’ai gagnée»», sur deliee.org, 14 février 2018. When France wins the final against Croatia, the camera pans across a multi-ethnic crowd, all cheering for their country. Ly won the 2019 Cannes Festival jury prize for Les Miserables and the film went on to be nominated for best international feature film. François Busnel, « Un homme, ça ne pleure pas, prétend Faïza Guène», sur lexpress.fr, 13 mars 2014. And that novel, Kiffe Kiffe Demain (Just Like Tomorrow), would then be published in 2004, to great acclaim. To date, it has sold 400,000 copies in France alone and it is now even used as reading material in high schools. en-US) Nour Seblini, « Game of hypocrites: Beurs break silence in Faïza Guène’s Kiffe kiffe demain», French Cultural Studies, vol.30, n o4,‎ 12 octobre 2019, p.335–346 ( ISSN 0957-1558 et 1740-2352, DOI 10.1177/0957155819861039, lire en ligne, consulté le 18 août 2020) .

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Après tout, « le voyage au bout de la nuit » (aucune comparaison possible) n'était pas non plus de la littérature classique. Mais il faut parler aujourd'hui des oeuvres qui marquent leur temps.

Why would he give a shit about voting?’ The guy already has to fight daily just to survive, so you can forget about his duties as a citizen .. If his situation improved a little, maybe he would want to get out and vote.en) Stella Linn, « C’est trop auch! The Translation of Contemporary French Literature Featuring Urban Youth Slang», International Journal of Literary Linguistics, vol.5, n o3,‎ 29 août 2016 ( ISSN 2194-5594, DOI 10.15462/ijll.v5i3.69, lire en ligne, consulté le 18 août 2020) . In retrospect, I realised how difficult and brutal the media coverage was. I was the first of my kind and was treated like a court jester, a freak' En 2004, Le Nouvel Observateur fera sa critique de Kiffe kiffe demain dans sa rubrique «Société». En 2006, Le Parisien titrera son article «Faïza Guène, plume du bitume» [83 ] dans sa rubrique «Société». En 2008, le même journal titrera «Parlez-vous le Faïza Guène?» [86 ] dans la même rubrique.