Driss Chraïbi

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Driss Chraïbi

Driss Chraïbi (born July 15, 1926 in El Jadida , French Morocco , † April 1, 2007 in Crest , Département Drôme ) was a French-speaking Moroccan writer .

Life

Chraïbi grew up as the son of a tea merchant in a middle-class family, which enabled him to receive a broad education in Casablanca . After finishing school in the Koran and graduating from a French high school, he went to Paris in 1945 to study chemistry and neuropsychiatry. In 1952 he broke off his studies and turned away from the natural sciences in order to devote himself entirely to writing, initially as an editor and journalist. He made numerous trips and worked in a wide variety of professions: as a chemist, engineer, night watchman, photographer and Arabic teacher.

In 1954 his first novel Le passé simple was published , which triggered a scandal in Morocco as a settlement with traditional Moroccan society and remained banned there until 1977. In his novel, The Scapegoats , which followed in 1955 , he processed the experience that even foreign, French society did not allow for an escape into another form of civilization. His novel Civilization, Mother! , published in 1972, is considered to be one of the most original works in Maghreb literature.

In the crime novel Investigations in the interior of 1981, Chraïbi invented the inspector Ali, one of his favorite characters in fiction. This police detective, who lives in Casablanca, investigates not only in the mountains of Morocco, but also in Great Britain ( Inspector Ali at Trinity College , 1995), in the USA (L'inspecteur Ali et la CIA) and in Afghanistan ( L'homme qui venait du passé , 2004).

Chraïbi has also written radio plays, including adaptations of works by Hemingway .

Works

Novels

  • Le passé simple (1954)
  • Les Boucs (1955; German The Scapegoats 1994), ISBN 3-927069-24-8
  • De tous les horizons (1958)
  • La foule (1961)
  • Succession ouverte (1962)
  • L'âne (1965)
  • Un ami viendra vous voir (1967)
  • La civilization, ma mère! (1972)
    • Civilization, mother! Translated from the French by Helgard Rost. With an afterword by Khálid Durán . Unionsverlag, Zurich 1982, ISBN 978-3-293-20463-8 (German first edition)
    • This civilization, mother! Translated from the French by Helgard Rost. Afterword by Swetlana W. Proshogina. Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1982, ISBN 3-293-20029-X (licensed edition)
  • Mort au Canada (1977)
  • Une enquête au pays (1981)
  • La mère du printemps (1982).
  • Naissance à l'aube (1986).
  • D'autres voix (1986).
  • L'inspecteur Ali (1991)
  • Les aventures de l'âne Khal (1992)
  • Une place au soleil (1993)
  • L'homme du livre (1995) (Eng. "Mohammed's calling", Edition Rugerup, Berlin 2016), ISBN 978-3-942955-48-5
  • L'inspecteur Ali à Trinity College (1996; German inspector Ali at Trinity College 1998), ISBN 3-293-20226-8
  • L'inspecteur Ali et la CIA (1998)
  • L'homme qui venait du passé (2004)

memoirs

  • Vu, lu, entendu (1998)
  • Le Monde à côté (2001)

Secondary literature

  • Eva Seidenfaden: A critical mediator between two cultures: the Moroccan writer Driss Chraibi and his narrative work. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-924888-69-8
  • Ulrich Döring: Searching for traces. Culture and cultural identity in Driss Chraibi's Berber trilogy . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-51514-3
  • Khalid Duran: Afterword . In Driss Chraïbi: Civilization, mother! Union, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-293-20463-8 (pp. 177-188)
  • Hartmut Fähndrich : Afterword . In Driss Chraïbi: Inland investigation. Roman from Morocco . Lenos, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85787-737-7 (The afterword in all Lenos editions since 1992)
  • Houaria Kadra-Hadjadji: Contestation et révolte dans l'oeuvre de Driss Chraïbi. Publisud, Paris 1986 ISBN 2866002547

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personal data
SURNAME Chraïbi, Driss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan author
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH El Jadida
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2007
Place of death Crest (Drôme)