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Driss Chraïbi is one of the great French-language Moroccan writers. Director Ahmed El Maanouni filmed him in the Drôme, where he lived, a year before his death in April 2007. Driss Chraïbi came into the spotlight with Le Passé simple (1954), the novel that ushered Moroccan literature into modernity. His work’s main them is culture shock, the opposition of West and East, the Arab World and France. After 50 years of literature, Driss Chraïbi remains the most anarchist and forceful of Moroccan novelists. In the course of these conversations, he tells us, in his own funny, singular and unpredictable way, what he thinks of the questions that give life to his work. This film sets his entire output in perspective.

Morocco - 2007 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Ahmed El Maanouni Writer Ahmed El Maanouni Camera Mohamed Merbouh, Pierre Boffety Sound Abderrahim Erraji, Damien Turpin Editing Aïcha El Hor

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